and the public can attend the dig. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, a tie-in for the film of the same name, was released in 1982 on Atari 2600. Considered one of the worst games ever made, it failed to ...

Atari founder Nolan Bushnell, who had left the company by then, told CNET recently that normal production for an Atari 2600 ... Dig-Dug." "Isn't it great? We're digging in the dirt for an Atari ...

Game collectors have their story, too. For them, the dig provided the extraordinary ... Then there is the face of the “Atari Legend,” an Atari 2600 game called E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial ...

Arriving in September is the Atari Flashback 8 Gold, a that console comes with 120 built-in Atari 2600 games ... The device includes 70 games, including Pac-Man, Dig Dug, Frogger and Pitfall ...

Yes, the game was that bad. Photo via Microsoft. Excavators discovered copies of the 1982 game during a dig today in Alamogordo ... with an old, dusty Atari 2600 joystick buried in the landfill.

Remember the odd story about the hundreds of vintage Atari video games found buried in a landfill in a Alamogordo, New Mexico, desert? The tale, which inspired a documentary crew to dig up the ...

ALAMOGORDO, New Mexico — A strong wind blew out of the south all day, carrying sand and decades of long-buried refuse that had refused to decompose in the arid New Mexico desert. It blew into ...

Atari’s 50th ... of the Atari 2600 game Centipede, dug up from a landfill in New Mexico last year. Assistant professor of history Bill Caraher participated in the dig and threw down $60 to ...

Over the weekend a Microsoft-backed effort to unearth the long-buried E.T. - The Extraterrestrial Atari 2600 game ... conceived game, years of not addressing the issue made the cover-up of ...

Film and excavation crews were joined by around 200 gaming enthusiasts and local residents for the dig, while some had brought their own Atari 2600 consoles ready to play any games that could be ...

but additional games and controllers are also up for preorder. Even cooler: it’s backwards compatible with original Atari 2600 and 7800 games. Let’s have a look at what games and accessories ...