The dirty, crushed and crumpled Atari 2600 cartridges that sat buried in a New Mexico landfill for more than 30 years are now up for auction on eBay, and some of those unearthed treasures are going ...

Hundreds of Atari 2600 cartridges of E.T. The Extra Terrestrial that were excavated last year from a landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico collectively raked in nearly $108,000 through eBay auctions.

A weird but true story this one, basically Microsoft is searching for a burried batch of E.T. copies for the Atairy 2600 back in the 80'ies. The company is making a documentary of this all. A planned ...

"E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial," a game that was so terrible it is widely believed to have caused the demise of Atari and the entire video game industry in the 1980s, is now selling online on eBay and is ...

The title that almost single-handedly ended console gaming before it truly began will soon take its place next to several hallowed video game relics in the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of ...

Hopefully it turns out better than Al Capone’s Vault. It's a story that has since become an urban legend of sorts, except it's totally real: when the video game market crashed in the early 80s, there ...

Fans of video game history may want to book flights to New Mexico. On April 26, a team of documentarians and garbage contractors will excavate the fabled landfill where E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial ...

The Geraldo and Al Capone's vault moment for gaming fans took place in the high desert of New Mexico this weekend. But unlike the legendary letdown of that empty vault, the Alamogordo landfill ...