Is it really true that the E.T. Atari cartridges were buried in a desert? ?

Question

Is it really true that the E.T. Atari cartridges were buried in a desert? ?

Answer 1

of course! why do u think atari is out of bisness? aliens hated it so much they kidnapped all atari people and burned the cartridges and threw them in the desert. i provided a link to show u the exact location.its at the source.

Answer 2

Yes, actually it sucked so bad it caused the video game crash of the 80's

Answer 3

Yes, they were buried.

"Amazingly, E.T.'s story doesn't end there. In 1983, faced with literally millions of unsold and returned E.T. games added to its already sizeable inventory of unusable cartridges, Atari opted for an environmentally unfriendly (some would say downright hostile) solution: The company dumped them into a city landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico, where they were crushed, buried, and later covered in a layer of cement. The incident was reported in the New York Times and prompted protests and legislation from city officials."

Answer 4

Yup. They poured concrete, tons of it over the games too keep people from digging them up. I first saw this article in a Popular Mechanics magazine in the early 90's. I actually had this game in the eighties and played it quit a bit actually. It's no Halo 3 , but it was fun. Heck, it was E.T. how cool is that?!