You’ve heard the legend about Atari burying a mountain’s worth of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial game carts in a landfill? Somewhere between 10 and 20 semi-trucks’ worth? Me neither, though I played the ...

Back in 1983, the video game industry crashed in the U.S. due to market oversaturation and terrible games like E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.

Few video games have earned a reputation as infamous as E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. Released in 1982 for the Atari 2600, it’s often labeled the worst video game ever made. For decades, it has served ...

"E.T." is going to the Smithsonian. One of the "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" Atari game cartridges unearthed this year from a New Mexico landfill has been added to the video game history collection at ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Searchers, accompanied by documentary filmmakers, plan to scour a New Mexico landfill in an attempt to unearth a legendary dump of millions of unwanted "E.T. the ...