Atari urban legend has been confirmed! Construction crews unearth games in New Mexico desert!

There has been a long standing urban legend in the gaming community that for over 30 years there has been a very large amount (14 full truck loads worth) of old Atari 2600 video games buried in the New Mexico desert. Many of these games that were burried were the extremely awful game E.T. The Extra Terrestrial. The legend states that during the video game crash of 1983 Atari was unfortunately stuck with massive amounts of the E.T. game as well as other games and hardware pieces. With interest in video games declining in North America, Atari decided to dump its excess items into a landfill to be rid of them. This story was never confirmed but it traveled from gamer to gamer and became an urban legend.

That urban legend has been confirmed today! Construction crews have unearthed copies of the E.T. Artari game at a landfill in the New Mexico desert near the city of Alamogordo. The dig to unearth this urban legend is a part of a documentary being made by Microsoft's Xbox Entertainment Studios. The documentary is set to come out next year and will focus on the changing landscape of the gaming industry.

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Source: IGN