E.T | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Mon, 02 Jun 2014 10:53:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png E.T | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 700 recovered E.T. games are going to be sold https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/matthew-wilson/700-recovered-e-t-games-are-going-to-be-sold/ https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/matthew-wilson/700-recovered-e-t-games-are-going-to-be-sold/#respond Mon, 02 Jun 2014 10:45:31 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=196129 Last month, the fabled Atari landfill was finally excavated and a Microsoft documentary crew recovered 1300 boxed copies of the failed E.T. game. Since the discovery, it's been up in the air as to what Microsoft plans to do with the cartridges. However, it has now been revealed that 700 of the 1300 cartridges will …

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Last month, the fabled Atari landfill was finally excavated and a Microsoft documentary crew recovered 1300 boxed copies of the failed E.T. game. Since the discovery, it's been up in the air as to what Microsoft plans to do with the cartridges.

However, it has now been revealed that 700 of the 1300 cartridges will be appraised, certified and then sold at the New Mexico Museum of Space History, the Alamogordo City Commission has announced. Alamogordo Mayor, Susie Galea, told Polygon: “We have been working with the space museum for curation, both for displaying and selling the games; they are now artefacts.”

Atari-Dig_Evidence

The remaining six hundred cartridges will be distributed amongst local New Mexico museums. Some of the 700 cartridges may be sold online and all of them will come with a certificate of authenticity. In total, 700,000 copies of the game were found at the landfill but due to them being 30 feet underground, the excavation team decided to grab what it could and bury the rest.

The site where 700,000 copies of the failed game remain is due to become a tourist attraction, which will be partially funded by the sale of 700 cartridges. That said, these plans have yet to be determined. The price of the cartridges is also yet to be revealed.

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KitGuru Says: More than 700,000 copies of the game were buried at the landfill site, that's a huge amount of unsold games. Are any of you guys serious retro collectors? Would you buy a recovered copy of E.T. if the price was right?

Source: Polygon

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E.T. cartridges found in fabled Atari landfill https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/matthew-wilson/e-t-cartridges-found-in-fabled-atari-landfill/ https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/matthew-wilson/e-t-cartridges-found-in-fabled-atari-landfill/#comments Mon, 28 Apr 2014 07:00:06 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=189412 The Atari 2600's movie tie-in game, ET, didn't go down particularly well with gamers all those years ago and as a result, thousands of copies of the game were dumped in an undisclosed landfill site. Since then people have speculated as to where Atari dumped the games with some rumours pointing towards a New Mexico …

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The Atari 2600's movie tie-in game, ET, didn't go down particularly well with gamers all those years ago and as a result, thousands of copies of the game were dumped in an undisclosed landfill site. Since then people have speculated as to where Atari dumped the games with some rumours pointing towards a New Mexico landfill but now, after years of wondering, a team of film makers have uncovered the games at the Alamogordo landfill site.

If you know much about console history or are in to retro gaming at all, then chances are you know about Atari's E.T game flop. Atari was expecting the game to sell quite well, unfortunately it didn't and the company had to dump all of its left over copies. The flop was quite the turning point for Atari and kicked off a series of financial woes that eventually forced the company out of the console hardware business. You might be wondering, why would anyone want to recover thousands of copies of a company destroying game? Well it turns out that Microsoft is behind this and is using this discovery as part of its upcoming documentary, currently under the working title: “Atari: Game Over”.

Atari Dig_Evidence

The documentary came to be when “Fuel Entertainment took an interest in the legend, and in December 2013, with help from local garbage contractor Joe Lewandowski, acquired the exclusive rights to excavate the Alamogordo landfill. Fuel Entertainment then brought the opportunity to Xbox Entertainment Studios.” The film is set to air exclusively on Xbox One and Xbox 360 later this year although an exact release date has yet to be announced.

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KitGuru Says: I'd like to know just how many copies of the game were found at the dump, hopefully the exact figure will be released soon. Do we have any retro readers? Did you ever play the E.T game? 

Source: Xbox

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