Fuel Industries last year sought to find the long-rumored cache of buried E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial video games. The games, made for the Atari 2600, long have been linked to the video game industry’s crash in the early 1980s.
Surplus copies of E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial — a notoriously bad gaming experience — were dumped in a landfill after failing to sell at retail. By burying its shame, Atari hoped to wipe the title from the gaming community’s collective consciousness.
Ironically, it’s now enshrined in the Smithsonian.
Many other games have been forgotten, though, with a lot less effort.
The mere passage of time has left many games all but mere memories, yet even those fondly remembered are often practically unplayable. Classic games from the early arcade days such as Pac-Man and Donkey Kong have been reissued for a new generation of gamers, but many games from less popular franchises have been relegated to oblivion.
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