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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An ET Atari cartridge pictured on the ground in Atari: Game Over. More specifically, we’re here to discuss the incident that saw ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

In any other universe, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial would be a long forgotten game at this point. Not just because it came out for what's now an ancient game console -- the Atari 2600 -- but also ...

It was supposed to be huge for Atari, but as a landfill in New Mexico recently proved, Atari was as lost as the titular creature from outer space in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. The Atari 2600 game ...

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 ...