As one online commentator put it, "This is like discovering a UFO for gaming."
The writer was referring to the dusty scene captured in a YouTube video shot in the New Mexico desert, where makers of a film documentary began digging in a landfill in search of "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial," a failed Atari video game made more than a generation ago.
"E.T." was a great film, but the game was a bomb, flop, fiasco. On the bright side, its complete failure did produce a video game urban legend on a par with more mainstream legends like Bigfoot and the Jersey Devil.
For decades, conspiracy theorists wondered: Was it true that hundreds, if not thousands, of "E.T." cartridges (remember those?) had been secretly buried in the desert near Alamogordo, N.M.?
On Saturday, gamers got their answer: Yes.
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