It has always been a myth that video game pioneer Atari buried their disgraced E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial title in the New Mexican desert after it nearly left them depleted. The shame was brought on ...

The first cartridges unearthed from Atari's legendary landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico have been sold on eBay, with multiple copies of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600 commanding more ...

The dirty, crushed and crumpled Atari 2600 cartridges that sat buried in a New Mexico landfill for more than 30 years are now up for auction on eBay, and some of those unearthed treasures are going ...

The title that almost single-handedly ended console gaming before it truly began will soon take its place next to several hallowed video game relics in the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of ...

Yesterday marked the climax of a decades-long story that surrounded one of the most poorly received video games in history. A Microsoft-backed documentary crew took to a landfill in the desert town of ...

Hopefully it turns out better than Al Capone’s Vault. It's a story that has since become an urban legend of sorts, except it's totally real: when the video game market crashed in the early 80s, there ...

One man's trash is another man's pricey, crushed game cartridge. Last week's eBay auctions for Atari cartridges unearthed during the production of the Atari: Game Over documentary have concluded, with ...

"E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial," a game that was so terrible it is widely believed to have caused the demise of Atari and the entire video game industry in the 1980s, is now selling online on eBay and is ...

However, the Atari 2600's library was also its downfall. The film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial had a huge amount of hype behind it. It was helped in no small part by director Steven Spielberg being at ...

Kids who grew up in the '70s and '80s spent a good part of their childhood blasting away aliens, racing cars and fighting giant insects in video games thanks to the Atari 2600 console. But this ...