The Insane Story Behind the Worst Video Game Ever Made
These cartridges, numbering about 800,000, were considered the worst video game ever made and found to have contributed to the downfall of the Atari video game company in the 1980s. The game was hurriedly designed to coincide with the release of Steven Spielberg's 1982 hit movie ET The Extraterrestrial, but it failed to meet up with the standard expected. The maker Atari was forced to secretly bury the games in a trench 30 feet deep in a 300-acre lot in the New Mexico desert. They had to pay the government of Alamogordo to help dump the cartridges in the city's following the disappearance of the games Atari denied knowledge of their whereabouts and what happened to them. By the time the trove was discovered, it had achieved the status of legend, considering the fact that nobody knew where they were.
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