06-05-2013, 10:49 AM
According to the Alamogordo Daily News, a New Mexico City commissioners agreed to allow a Canadian studio to search a landfill where old Atari's ET video games were buried. The rumored Atari graveyard has long been a fascination of some who consider the commercial flop a part of video game history. It is believed that nine semi-trucks dumped the E.T. game and other Atari toys in the southern New Mexico landfill in 1983. Fuel Industries, a multimedia company, has been given six months to search the landfill. The company hopes to document the search.