Construction workers unearth legendary cache of Atari games

The moment is historic . An urban legend of the old video game nearly 30 years has found its epilogue , there are a few minutes! Yes, Atari had so well buried thousands of cartridges AND in the desert!


According to the New York Times in 1983 , 14 trucks would come to bury thousands of cartridges ET The Extra -Terrestrial unsold in the desert of New Mexico Almagordo . The Atari 2600 game was so bad, and had been a resounding flop if Atari would have found other ways to bury its stocks in secret. Thus was born the urban legend of the game AND real marker of the crisis of video game 80 .

Today, the legend takes a new focus . That of truth .

So thousands ( some say millions! ) Unsold cartridges that are well underground. With a documentary directed by Zak Penn , the excavations have been undertaken and are now reaching their peak with the discovery of cartridges ! A historic moment, almost touching , immortalized in pictures below ...

S.D. desert home ... ...

Looks like ET had some company here in New Mexico. Still in shrink wrap! pic.twitter.com/BNjKyVVcrN
— Larry Hryb (@majornelson) 26 Avril 2014

Here it is up close - the very first ET cartridge exhumed after 30 years pic.twitter.com/nb8tv33w8F
— Larry Hryb (@majornelson) 26 Avril 2014

#DiggingET pic.twitter.com/jIQsbILguZ
— Raiford Guins (@RaifordGuins) 26 Avril 2014

Close up. pic.twitter.com/inSKukibZ4
— Chris Kohler (@kobunheat) 26 Avril 2014

Source : the verge 

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