On Saturday, a film crew looked on as workmen dug up copies of failed Atari game, ET. But why does everyone care so much? What other video games deserve to be buried in the desert? The tweets started ...

Yesterday marked the climax of a decades-long story that surrounded one of the most poorly received video games in history. A Microsoft-backed documentary crew took to a landfill in the desert town of ...

Atari: Game Over, the documentary chronicling the excavation of Atari cartridges from a New Mexico landfill, will debut November 20 according to the film’s director. Earlier this year I drove down to ...

The excavation of Atari’s game graveyard—which unearthed many copies of the infamous failed E.T. game—definitely happened. There are pictures. There are trustworthy witness reports. But somehow, some ...

ALAMOGORDO, NM—When a film crew, a dig crew, and dozens of fans and journalists showed up at a decades-old desert landfill in New Mexico on Saturday, no one was certain what to expect. The crowd was ...

WEBVTT VIDEO GAME FANS FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY ARE LEAVING NEW MEXICO WITH THE ANSWER TO ONE OF THE INDUSTRY'S BIGGEST MYSTERIES. WERE THOUSANDS OF GAMES REALLY BURIED IN ALAMOGORDO, INCLUDING ONE ...

It helps to know your way around a landfill. Joe Lewandowski used his expertise in the solid waste industry to dig up a treasure trove of Atari games from a New Mexico landfill earlier this year. They ...