In 1983, the failing Atari video game company allegedly dumped millions of unsold E.T. the Extra Terrestrial cartridges in a New Mexico landfill. Ever since, game nostalgists have tried to track them down. Today, screenwriter Zak Penn’s documentary crew begin digging, and our friends at Wired got a sneak peek at the excavation.

Source:  http://gizmodo.com/the-atari-e-t-landfill-excavation-starts-today-what-w-1568029345/+robertsorokanich ET are you out there

Film Director Zak Penn shows a box of a decades-old Atari ‘E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial’ game found in a dumpsite in Alamogordo, N.M. Photo / AP