The Registry of Historic Gaming Locations has added the landfill sites where they buried all those copies of the E.T Atari game to their list.
E.T was a game that was so terrible it is credited with almost single handily destroying the video game industry (and Atari) in the 80’s, but also was one of the reasons retailers developed returns policies for games. There were so many unused copies of E.T that they were eventually put into trucks and buried in landfill.
The Registry of Historic Gaming Locations, an initiative to help people find historical locations that effected gaming, has added Alamagordo, New Mexico to their list – which, as a side note, is only 50 miles from Roswell. Coincidence? Probably.
Before you get excited and head down to New Mexico with a shovel and a dream (as copies of the game are actually quite valuable now due to both infamy and the fact most of the copies are in landfill,) the vast majority of the cartridges were crushed inside their boxes before they were buried to save space.
I know it was only developed in five weeks, but seriously, that game deserves to be in landfill.
[News Release via Kotaku]