You may recall our reporting on the Atari documentary which is being exclusively produced by Microsoft for the Xbox. _The documentary team ran afoul of the New Mexico state government which put the planned excavation on hold. _But these issues how now been cleared up and the public is invited to see the dig. Xbox One: Atari Documentary Dig Which Was Earlier Put On Hold By The State Government Now Approved Atari Documentary Dig Put On Hold by the State Government An Xbox original documentary series is telling the story behind Atari’s alleged burial of millions of unsold “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” game cartridges in a small town in New Mexico three decades ago. An excavation to find those games was carried out April 26. Spectators were invited to watch the unearthing to see whether the burial is urban legend or fact. The story goes that in 1983, Atari, faced with overwhelmingly negative response to the game, buried those cartridges in the Alamogordo Landfill in the middle of the night. In...

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