Kill it with Fire - E.T found in desert

[miamisurf]

http://www.polygon.com/2014/4/26/5656282/atari-et-landfill-new-mexico-found-cartridges

[zomboided]

Wow, it really is true!

[relic]

i belive that cause the game is shocking i would have done the same with atari jaguar cd or blown it up set it in space to the sun

[gigapig]

Thanks for posting this, can't to see that documentary.

They'll hopefully slot one in a 2600 and see if it still works.

[miamisurf]

We all know cartridges Never Die and Jaguars never lived.

[relic]

We all know cartridges Never Die and Jaguars never lived.

lol so true with out a doubt many of the jaguar cd addons have issues

and if you look at atari 7800 or was 5200 the controls never played on them cause they were so shitty and designed like a house phone but these days you look at controls there plain and simple and many just stick to the one design dpad analogs and all the extra buttons followed by usb or wireless play and lets not forget how games had many ideas in the past bu now they all seem the same mostly shoot em ups is the future cause people play online all day and night and tahts a bad thing i watched an episode of 1000 ways to die and there was one where a teenager or person plays online nonstop and has junk food as well then gets nasty pimple size of zits and couldent breathe in the and died.

a video game addict learns the hard way that long term playing can lead to a real life "game over"

[Agrajag]

This must be what they mean by "data mining"...

[SORHP]

Real world role playing dig dug

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[keltoigael]

The legend is true! They found a bunch of other carts as well. Almost cried when I saw yars revenge, asteroids and centipede.

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[Steelkilt]

amazing. As a kid I remember playing E.T. on the Atari. So apparently that game had real issues in the design.

All these years I just figured I sucked at that game and didn't understand it.

[zerojay]

Source code: http://pastebin.com/AaSYZTHt

[gigapig]

Source code: http://pastebin.com/AaSYZTHt

That's an interesting find Zerojay, thanks.

So would anyone pay a higher price to own a copy of a buried E.T?

I just watched a review of the game, which is pretty bad, but not the worst.

[Silverback]

I got so frustrated with it i think i almost buried my copy!!

There is a guy on Youtube that reviews 10 games that are worse than E.T. They are awful!

[Trnzaddict]

Yars Revenge was in there???? That game was awesome.

Man so much money wasted....

[Jumpstile]

I loved the 2600 version of Asteroids. I remember buying it the day it was released. Ahhh those were the days!

- J*

[Silverback]

Yars Revenge was in there???? That game was awesome.

Yars Revenge was one of my favourites along with Reactor and Hero.