PHOTOS: Digging for ‘E.T. The Extraterrestrial’ Atari game in a New Mexico landfill
April 26, 2014
An E.T. doll is seen while construction workers prepare to dig into a landfill in Alamogordo, N.M., Saturday, April 26, 2014. Producers of a documentary are digging in the landfill in search of millions of cartridges of the Atari 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial' game that has been called the worst game in the history of videogaming. A New York Times article from 1983 reported that Atari cartridges of "E.T. The Extraterrestrial" were dumped in the landfill in Alamogordo. (AP Photo/Juan Carlos Llorca) ( Atari Dig )
Film Director Zak Penn shows a box of a decades-old Atari 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial' game found in a dumpsite in Alamogordo, N.M., Saturday, April 26, 2014. Producers of a documentary dug in a southeastern New Mexico landfill in search of millions of cartridges of the game that has been called the worst game in the history of video gaming and were buried there in 1983. (AP Photo/Juan Carlos Llorca) ( Atari Dig )
Workers sift through trash in search for decades-old Atari 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial' game cartridges in Alamogordo, N.M., Saturday, April 26, 2014. Producers of a documentary dug in an southeastern New Mexico landfill in search of millions of cartridges of the game that has been called the worst game in the history of video gaming and were buried there in 1983. (AP Photo/Juan Carlos Llorca) ( Atari Dig )
Crews begin digging at the old Alamogordo, N.M., landfill on Friday April 25, 2014, to search for copies of the Atari game "E.T. The Extraterrestrial" purportedly buried there in the 1980s. The game is considered among gamers to be one of the worst ever and is believed to have contributed to the demise of Atari. (AP Photo/Alamogordo Daily News, John Bear) ( CORRECTION Atari Dig )
Alamogordo residents Armando Ortega, left, and Raul Ruiz pose for a photograph with a cartridge they found buried in a landfill in Alamogordo, N.M., Saturday, April 26, 2014. Producers of a documentary dug in an southeastern New Mexico landfill in search of millions of cartridges of the Atari 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial' game that has been called the worst game in the history of video gaming and were buried there in 1983. (AP Photo/Juan Carlos Llorca) ( Atari Dig )
A man takes a photo of an E.T. doll in Alamogordo, N.M, Saturday, April 26, 2014. Producers of a documentary dug in an southeastern New Mexico landfill in search of millions of cartridges of the Atari 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial' game that has been called the worst game in the history of video gaming and were buried there in 1983. (AP Photo/Juan Carlos Llorca) ( Atari Dig )
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