What Atari game was so bad thousands of copies of it were rumored to be buried in the desert?
Not every game is a winner. Take the recently released The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, which was universally panned, went viral for how glitchy it was, and prompted a public apology from the game developer.
We’ve all played some really terrible games — some of them so bad that we’d be happy to get rid of them and never, ever see them again.
Legend has it one such game from the Atari era was so bad, the company actually dug up a giant hole in the desert and dumped thousands of copies into it, hoping they would never be unearthed. Frankly, there were a lot of bad games released for the Atari, but only this one carried the legend of being buried in a mass cartridge-grave in the desert.
Which game was it?
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The answer is: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. For decades, the legend of copies of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial being buried in the desert persisted, and no one was really sure whether it was true or not.Turns out, there is some truth to it — Atari did indeed dump thousands of cartridges, and other devices and equipment, into a landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico, following the great home-video game industry crash of the ‘80s. They weren’t all E.T. cartridges, but many indeed were. And it wasn’t necessarily because the game was so bad, but just because it didn’t sell well and they had no desire to pay up to store unsold copies. Of course, it didn’t sell because it was really, really bad.Source
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