Sunday, April 27, 2014

Buried copies of failed movie game E.T. have been found


Buried copies of failed movie game E.T. have been found




It seems like the search for millions of copies of failed movie tie-in game E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial buried in a landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico has finally turned something up.


The dig, which begun in earnest today, has turned up copies of the game you can see in the picture below. The crew operating the excavators are saying there are many more.


Image credit: Larry Hryb.

Apparently E.T. wasn’t the only game buried at the site. Here’s a picture of another copy and also the Atari 2600 game, Centipede:


Image credit: Larry Hryb.

Whatever else the search turns up will be captured on film for a documentary Microsoft commissioned about the dig. It will debut as a multi-part documentary series exclusively on Xbox platforms later this year.


The final excavation of the site is a long time coming for Microsoft. Alamogordo city commissioners approved the search in June, but the project was later put on hold because a waste excavation plan needed to be finalized before the digging could begin. Microsoft got that approval just earlier this month.


We’ll keep updating this story with any new details from today’s dig.













Emanuel Maiberg is a freelance writer. You can follow him on Twitter @emanuelmaiberg and Google+.

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