Microsoft invite you to attend the Atari Landfill excavation on April 26

[Jaesun]

http://www.vg247.com/2014/04/10/mic...nd-the-atari-landfill-excavation-on-april-26/

Microsoft has invited the public to attend the Atari Landfill excavation where a team will search for buried E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial video game rumored to be buried in New Mexico.

Supposedly millions of copies of the unsold game were buried in 1983 near the small town of Alamogordo, New Mexico in 1983.

Fuel Entertainment and local garbage contractor Joe Lewandowski have acquired the rights to excavate the landfill and Xbox Entertainment Studios will be part of thedocumentary series along with producers Simon and Jonathan Chinn from Lightbox.

The site will be open to the public on April 26 and spectators can watch the team uncover the infamous Atari grave, if the cartridges are indeed buried there.

 

[Hellraiser]

Fools, some things are best left buried, lest they be unleashed on the unsuspecting world.

ITZ coming.

 

[sexbad?]

Fittingly, it's the anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster.

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

A.T.A.R.I.: Call of E(E)T(Z)

 

[Spectacle]

Meh, at best they'll find a load of crushed black plastic, the labels will have deteriorated by now.

 

[FeelTheRads]

I wouldn't go digging in the desert.

Spoiler

Pretty cool, if they find it.

 

[agris]

Meh, at best they'll find a load of crushed black plastic, the labels will have deteriorated by now.

You'd be surprised. Depending on how the cartridges where dumped in, there might be some in the top-center that are well preserved in the anaerobic environment.

Or everything will be covered in shit, who knows.

 

[Metro]

Game wasn't nearly as bad as people make it out to be. Especially considering how limited most 2600 titles were.

 

[Cassidy]

Game wasn't nearly as bad as people make it out to be. Especially considering how limited most 2600 titles were.

IF E.T. was released today, it would be hailed as :

"CITIZEN KANE OF GAMES MEETS E.T."

*Edit: I wish one day another company will excavate a landfill of Xbones

 

[DeepOcean]

I came expecting an edgy remark about Microsoft buying Atari leftovers but then it was really Microsoft paying to excavate useless shit what is double LOL.

 

[Metro]

They should do something useful and hunt down the lost relics from the Sword Quest games they never produced (and thus never awarded in the contests held for first few installments).

 

[DeepOcean]

I really don't understand, isn't Microsoft Xbox division truck full of shit already? Why they need to excavate for more?

 

[J1M]

They should pre-seed the dig site with viral alternate-reality game clues that eventually lead to them finding the Atari storage bins full of copies of Halo 5.

 

[Gragt]

Microsoft delved too greedily and too deep.

 

[Zarniwoop]

As an added bonus, once they dig up all the ET carts, there will be a nice big hole in which to bury all the X Rebirth discs, along with the entire Egosoft staff.

 

[sser]

Little known fact, but E.T. is the predecessor to 2008's Prince of Persia. Same mechanics and everything.

 

[AlexOfSpades]

This sounds like the beggining of a horror movie.

 

[Azrael the cat]

Game wasn't nearly as bad as people make it out to be. Especially considering how limited most 2600 titles were.

Yes, it really was, even when I was a kid. Games of that era were generally based off a singular fun mechanic, that is then extended in various ways. ET lacked a singular fun mechanic.

The limitations of the 2600 wasn't the issue. There were far simpler games that were far FAR better than ET: Pong, Space Invaders, Tanks and Pacman all had good Atari releases.

 

[Metro]

No, it was fine. Go collect 'dem space ship parts, brah.

 

[potatojohn]

Microsoft finally returns to where it belongs.

 

[Darth Roxor]

They should dig up Stones of Arnhem.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

They want to make room for the Xbox One units.

 

[Konjad]

Why would anybody care about it anyway? I guess digging shit is just the part of American culture that I will never get.

 

[Cyberarmy]

Why would anybody care about it anyway? I guess digging shit is just the part of American culture that I will never get.

They are probably going to release an HD remake of the original and need old version of the game for codes?

 

[ColCol]

The shityness off all those ET games combined will magically create.....one copy of Bioshock infinite.

 

[Jarpie]

They should do something useful and hunt down the lost relics from the Sword Quest games they never produced (and thus never awarded in the contests held for first few installments).

The persistant rumour is that Jack Tramiel had them, no idea if that's true or not.