Atari Landfill To Be Dug Up; Documentary Crew To Verify Urban Legend, Will Search for Millions of Copies of Buried Flop Atari Game

A Canadian studio was allowed by the Alamogordo commissioners to dig up and search the Atari landfill, where millions of copies of unsold terrible and old Atari games were believed to be buried.

According to Alamagordo Daily News, the commissioners of the city gave permission to Fuel Industries to comb the Atari landfill for the flop game, ET that was created by the game developer who also made the Atari Breakout so popular.

The rumored Atari landfill has been a fascination of several gamers for a long time already who have considered the old Atari games still part of the video gaming history. The ET video game from Atari was thought by a lot of gamers to be one of the most horrible video games ever created. Atari even paid Steven Spielberg millions of dollars just to acquire gaming license of the 1982 widely famous movie E.T. but the fiasco of this Atari game contributed even more to the then plummeting status of the troubled game development company. But still, the game was able to develop a cult following.

Reportedly, nine semi-trucks dumped millions of copies of the ET game as well as other toys from the video game developer in what is known now as the Atari landfill, located in Alamogordo, New Mexico in 1983.

The commissioner of Alamogordo, Jason Baldwin, who permitted the dig-up of the Atari landfill also shared that he had also played the Extraterrestrial video game from Atari, and he thought that it was awful.

The documentary crew that was permitted to dig up and search the Atari landfill in New Mexico for millions of unsold pieces of Atari 2600 software and hardware for ET game cartridges hopes to verify or disprove one of the most epic urban legends in the gaming world.