After being collected, crushed and left buried in a New Mexico for more than 30 years, these rare copies of E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial are selling for over $500 apiece on eBay.
In a somewhat strange but ultimately cool revelation, it's been discovered that Chubby Checker -- yes, the "The Twist" dude -- recorded a song about Dig Dug.
No doubt by now you've heard that an excavation team was digging up the old landfill in New Mexico that was fabled to be full of "E.T." carts for the Atari 2600. Yes, they found some "E.T." games, but also found several others games. Many looked to be in working order.
The reason for the landfill was because people kind of stopped playing video games after that game came out, b
Super Mario Bros is one of the most iconic video games of all time. It's the game that turned Mario into a house-hold name, the music is legendary and video games today still use Super Mario Bros. as their main source of inspiration. It was the game that was included in the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in the mid-80s so it just missed the opportunity to be on the Atari 2600.
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Thanks to some documentarian film makers, the landfill where Atari dumped 10-20 semi-truckloads of old video games is about to be excavated for the first time.