ALAMOGORDO, NM - You're the world's largest video game maker, but no one wants to Sudden yourself a game cartridges stuck with millions of Search. What do you do?You trucks loaded cartridges and buried them in the desert of New Mexico.
Atari nearly 30 years ago, or is this story just because.sleeping on a concrete floor poured.
A spray-painted sign, bright orange against a white background, visitors, warning: "Keep out."
Most video games ever made of one of the recalled by some as the ET video game, the final resting place may be.
Snopes.com, rumors, hoaxes and urban myths on the web authority, ET has buried the feed suspicion and mystery stories online circulation, although many cartridges a story. Here - plastic cases stored in shoe boxes and closets and garage tattered paper bag - at least some ET is not enough evidence to be found buried in the ground game.
"It's not a myth," Mark Esquero, 69, thrown garret her back after ET, on the ground that night from a deep hole scooped more than a dozen game cartridges one brandishing, in her room said one recent afternoon.
Graphic design video game experience accident early Earth was enchanting to chances which, has captured the imagination of the joystick generation. (Lego brick built with the characters think about, no curved lines.) It hurt induced by ET music videos and television series whose main character web "stupid angry video game based on" an independent film the game, the game save from the shock of hope for younger generations of gamers, land sets out to debunk symptoms.
"Everyone always fantasized about them digging up the game," James Rolfe, filmmaker and star of the series, said in an interview. "This is the perfect nerdy treasure hunt."
What could it be?
"System, prototypes," 1980s, a waste-management company ran in Alamogordo and is ready to tell about what happened than I who know too much Lewandowski said. (Atari, which filed for bankruptcy this year, Ma has been over the years, and Mr. Lewandowski quiet and mischievous smile more questions were met with a mixture.)
In 1986, readers of a certain age uncover the secrets of Al Capone's vaults Geraldo Rivera's struggles, nothing bad empty bottles and debris revealed that a live TV event can remember. Last month, fuel, entertainment, digital company in Los Angeles Alamogordo during the next six months to dig the land acquired special permission. To find out there is going to be more than soil that is probably safe.
In the hole "is nothing" or even warned, "We're going to be drilling 100 percent," the company's chief executive, Mike Burns assured "the holy grail of video games could be there."
In September 1983 This day has no definitive account of the phone as a virtual game, an online forum for the next trip to change a little bit, seem to feed on each other. When the truck got here, Attari distance, only versions.
No. 20 truck into a story. Others say there were 10 or 14. Mr. Lewandowski 29 trucks just over the border from New Mexico, EL PASO, Tex. The plant was left in the attic recalled last week, and 9 made it to the ground.
"The other 20," he said, "No one knows what happened."
A way of hijacking trucks and never be seen again, was taken in Mexico that is a lingering rumor.
The 1982 Christmas shopping season hit the market in time for the ET video game, was a five-week period. Atari blockbuster film "ET the Extra-Terrestrial banking on cashing in on," and $ 25 million for the film rights to the name of Steven Spielberg, the director and co-producer, paid $ 20 million.
Nick MONTFORT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Associate Professor in Digital Media and a co-author of "Beam Racing: Atari Video Computer System," he said, "This is one that I have made a good game Can that really seems impossible amount of time. "
Sports was a big flop. More than half of the five million cartridges were returned.
E.T. Atari was not the only mistake. The company had more than the consoles Pac-Man cartridges made Professor MONTFORT "than there are players be making records is like." Competitors started to make their system fit the cartridge than once, it lost its leadership - some of the garret, cheaper than others, but just not good.
"The market was oversaturated by no one wanted things," Andrew Reiner, Game Informer, a monthly magazine executive editor based in Minneapolis.
City officials here as an opportunity to see land adjacent excavation. One commissioner, Jason Baldwin, 39, "is shown displaying some good.", He said another, Jim Talbert, 64, said, "I do not understand what is fuss is all about, but We welcome it. "
Mayor Susie A. Galea, 32, the voice in the east "If you look at Roswell," he said in a city 120 miles away, in 1947 crash - is rumored to have landed, "This is a subject. Alamogordo does not . want to be sure we are not. "
, Ms Galea went on, "they dig, regardless of whether there is a change in a destination." It is expected that
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