The Atari Video Game Burial

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🗓️ 18 November 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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The Atari video game burial was a mass burial of unsold video game cartridges, consoles, and computers in a New Mexico landfill site, undertaken by American video game and home computer company Atari, Inc. in 1983. Up until 2014, the goods buried were rumored to be unsold copies of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, one of the biggest commercial failures in video gaming and often cited as one of the worst video games ever released, along with the Atari 2600 port of Pac-Man, which was commercially successful but critically maligned.

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0:00.0	No, it's, it's about midwives, I guess.
0:04.5	Midwives?
0:06.0	Is that the wife between first and third?
0:08.6	I don't, what's that referred to?
0:10.3	I think so, I wasn't sure.
0:13.6	E-G phone, huh?
0:15.6	Jesus Christ, what is that thing?
0:17.4	It's E-G holy shit.
0:19.9	E-G is in real?
0:21.0	What the fuck?
0:21.9	That looks like fucking E-G right there.
0:24.0	Ha ha, I've got you guys.
0:26.6	What the hell did you do to yourself, Eli?
0:29.4	You look worse than usual.
0:31.4	Oh, I'm, I'm ET.
0:33.2	That's, yeah, that's, that's, that's not a costume.
0:35.8	That's, you know, I don't know what that is.
0:38.2	What, I don't know.
0:39.3	Yeah, no, I got a surgery guy.
0:41.4	That sounds like what that is.
0:43.2	That, yeah, yeah.
0:45.0	He took a few vertebrae out of my lower spine,
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