Atari E.T. game cartridges landfill found?!

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Shinryu Masaki
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Atari E.T. game cartridges landfill found?!

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After 30 years of the urban legend of Atari having dumped hundreds and thousands of E.T. game cartridges in a landfill, it was apparently true.

http://www.pennlive.com/entertainment/i ... er_default

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/diggers- ... et-games-0

I always believed this to be false, but then again people 30 years ago had a different mentality about disposals. I'm not sure what to think really, but it's pretty interesting.
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>< roflmao
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How cool. I always thought it was an urban myth too :)
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Now all we have to do is find Polybius in a government warehouse :lol: :mrgreen:

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