In December of 2013 we reported on Microsoft’s plans for an exclusive documentary for Xbox Live users. The documentary will_investigate the events surrounding the great video game burial of 1983 that the Atari Corporation, faced with overwhelmingly negative response to the video game_“E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial,” buried millions of unsold game cartridges in the middle of the night in the small town of Alamogordo, New Mexico. Two companies, Fuel Entertainment and LightBox Interactive plan on digging up portions of an old Alamogordo landfill located near First Street and White Sands Boulevard to search for Atari “E.T. The Extraterrestrial” game cartridges purportedly buried there in the 1980s. The documentary is currently in production but has run afoul of typical government bureaucracy. _The New Mexico Environment Depart has halted a planned excavation of an old city landfill so two companies can look for old video game cartridges. “No one is allowed to dig until the WEP is approved by the [Solid Waste and Ground Water Bureau],” Jim Winchester, a spokesman for the New...

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