The dirty, crushed and crumpled Atari 2600 cartridges that sat buried in a New Mexico landfill for more than 30 years are now up for auction on eBay, and some of those unearthed treasures are going ...

"E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial," a game that was so terrible it is widely believed to have caused the demise of Atari and the entire video game industry in the 1980s, is now selling online on eBay and is ...

A weird but true story this one, basically Microsoft is searching for a burried batch of E.T. copies for the Atairy 2600 back in the 80'ies. The company is making a documentary of this all. A planned ...

Hundreds of Atari 2600 cartridges of E.T. The Extra Terrestrial that were excavated last year from a landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico collectively raked in nearly $108,000 through eBay auctions.

Yesterday marked the climax of a decades-long story that surrounded one of the most poorly received video games in history. A Microsoft-backed documentary crew took to a landfill in the desert town of ...

Fans of video game history may want to book flights to New Mexico. On April 26, a team of documentarians and garbage contractors will excavate the fabled landfill where E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial ...

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Atari rolled out its home console, the Atari 2600, in 1977, and in the ensuing years, the device became the dominant console of choice for gamers. Despite growing competition in the space, the 2600 ...

Atari 2600 fans get the revival console they deserve Time to dust off those old carts -- just leave 'E.T.' where it is. James Trew Former Editor-at-Large Updated Tue, June 13, 2017 at 6:09 PM PDT 2 ...