Video Game Preservation: An Impossible Dream?

Fuel Industries last year sought to find the long-rumored cache of buried E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial video games, made for the Atari 2600 in the early 1980s. Surplus copies of E.T. -- a notoriously bad gaming experience -- were dumped in a landfill after failing to sell. 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.



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