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"A peculiar operation is underway in Alamogodoro, New Mexico: Microsoft has been\u00A0digging up a landfill to find copies of Atari's failed 1982 video game, E.T. to see if the rumored dumping of games there in 1983 really occurred.\r\nPicture via Brian Kieffer\r\nThe company\u00A0has finally struck gold and has\u00A0actually\u00A0found them too, presumably after weeks of hunting for them. The public were invited to\u00A0the dig today and shared pictures of the finds, packaging and all, on Twitter, finally confirming the myth.\r\nPicture via Chris Kohler\r\nPicture via Taylor Hatmaker\r\nThe dig is part of a documentary funded by Microsoft and looks at the history of Atari, focusing on the company's\u00A0struggles in the 1980's with massive financial losses thanks in part to the E.T. game.\r\n\r\nWe knew that\u00A0Atari had dumped large volumes of the failed game in the desert landfill, but it seemed unlikely that Microsoft would strike gold. The\u00A0New York Times reported in 1983:\r\n&amp;quot;[Atari]\u00A0has dumped 14 truckloads of discarded game cartridges and other computer equipment at the city landfill in Alamogordo, N.M. Guards kept reporters and spectators away from the area as workers poured concrete over the dumped merchandise. &amp;quot;\r\nImage via Megan Guess\r\nThousands of unsold copies of games and other hardware were known to have been\u00A0dumped in New Mexico and this find finally confirms what\u00A0exactly was buried down there. Snopes places the number at approximately 3.5 Million, so there's a lot more where that came from.\r\n\r\nWas it worth it? We'll have to wait and see\u00A0how the documentary, which is titled &amp;quot;Atari: Game Over&amp;quot;, turns out. In the meantime, you can actually\u00A0play\u00A0the unburied E.T game right in your browser.\r\n\r\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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