The Extra-terrestrial Atari Game Hits Stores, And Flops Hard. So why was there such a rush to get E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial into the Atari 2600 consoles of the world?

And, infamously, after Atari made the mistake of ordering 4 million copies of the game, many of them ended up in a New Mexico landfill. E.T. also almost killed the video game industry entirely.

I was six years old when the Atari 2600 game E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial was released.In the years since, the game has taken on an almost mythical quality in the hearts and minds of many Atari fans, ...

So naturally, Atari got a whole team working round the clock on it…Except, no; that’s not what it did. Instead, it asked Howard Scott Warshaw to produce the entire game in five weeks, by himself.

Digital and intangible as most crowd-funded video game projects are, a lot of them already look like candidates for desert burial, the way Atari once had to ditch those ET cartridges like it was ...

“E.T.” may have soared in the movies. But as a video game, it was an epic turkey. When electronics pioneer Atari rushed a game based on the 1982 Hollywood blockbuster to market for its then ...

ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (AP) — A decades-old urban legend was put to rest Saturday when workers for a documentary film production company recovered "E.T." Atari game cartridges from a heap of garbage ...

One of the "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" Atari game cartridges unearthed this year from a New Mexico landfill has been added to the video game history collection at the Smithsonian.

In 1983 the video game industry crashed, and it crashed hard. Over the course of two years, revenue for the industry fell 97 percent, and the company that was hit hardest by the crash was Atari ...

A long-buried copy of the infamous Atari game "E.T." is worth more than $1,500. The desert city of Alamogordo, New Mexico, finally sold off its buried treasure of ancient Atari games, raking in ...

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Believe it or not, there's a lot more to the story of how Atari buried a bunch of E.T. cartridges in a New Mexico landfill, and the whole truth is just as wild.