Decades ago, Atari produced a legendarily awful video game based on E.T.: The Extraterrestrial. According to reports from the time, the game was such a flop that Atari was left with millions of unsold and unsellable copies, marking a fatal turning point in both the company's fortunes and the larger industry. Unable to get rid of the games, Atari allegedly dumped truckloads of them in a New Mexico landfill, covering them in cement and leaving them for the ages to destroy. But although The New York Times and others described some kind of Atari disposal effort in 1983, the E.T. burial has reached the status of an urban legend in the gaming community — one that Snopes considers true and the developer suspects is false. Now, according to...
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