The legend sounded too perfect to be true: a video game company, humiliated by the worst game ever made, crushing millions of unsold cartridges and burying them under concrete in the New Mexico desert ...

Few video games have earned a reputation as infamous as E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. Released in 1982 for the Atari 2600, it’s often labeled the worst video game ever made. For decades, it has served ...

Most of the 1,300 games recovered were copies of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, a 1982 game that adapted the Steven Spielberg movie of the same name for the Atari 2600. The game, as well as the burial of ...