Arguably the biggest flop in video gaming history—the unfortunate launch of Atari’s “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial”—coincided with the complete demise of Atari in the early 1980s. In the pre-digital era, ...

Atari games buried in landfill net $37,000 on eBay ALAMOGORDO, N.M. -- What some have called the worst video game ever made has fetched thousands of dollars for a New Mexico city. An old "E.T. The ...

The legend sounded too perfect to be true: a video game company, humiliated by the worst game ever made, crushing millions of unsold cartridges and burying them under concrete in the New Mexico desert ...

ALBUQUERQUE N.M. (Reuters) - Documentary filmmakers digging in a New Mexico landfill on Saturday unearthed hundreds of "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" cartridges, considered by some the worst video game ...

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 buried ...

"E.T." the movie may have been a blockbuster hit, but E.T. the video game was such a commercial flop that Atari supposedly buried the copies in a New Mexico landfill to be forever forgotten. A ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Searchers, accompanied by documentary filmmakers, plan to scour a New Mexico landfill in an attempt to unearth a legendary dump of millions of unwanted "E.T. the ...

ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (AP) — What some have called the worst video game ever made has fetched thousands of dollars for a New Mexico city. An old "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial" game cartridge drew the highest ...