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ALAMOGORDO, N.M. — A documentary film production company has found buried in a landfill hundreds of the Atari “E.T.” game cartridges that some call the worst video game ever made.
Film director Zak Penn showed an “E.T.” cartridge retrieved from the site and said that hundreds more were found in the mounds of trash and dirt scooped by a backhoe.
About 200 residents and game enthusiasts gathered Saturday in southeastern New Mexico to watch backhoes and bulldozers dig through the concrete-covered landfill in search of up to a million discarded copies of “E.T. The Extraterrestrial” that the game’s maker wanted to hide forever.
“I feel pretty relieved and psyched that they actually got to see something,” Penn said.
