Old Atari games sought in U.S. landfill by Canadian firm

A New Mexico city commission has agreed to allow a Canadian studio to search an old landfill where old, terrible Atari games are rumoured to be buried.

TheAlamogordo Daily News reportsthat Alamogordo commissioners will allow Fuel Industries to search the landfill for games. It has offices in Ottawa, Ont., andCulver City, Calif.

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One sought game, the E.T. video game, is thought by some gamers to be one of the worst video games of all time.

Atari paid Steven Spielberg tens of millions of dollars to license the E.T. name, and the dud of a game caused the troubled company's worth to sink even further at the time.

Alamogordo Commissioner Jason Baldwin says he played the E.T. game and it was horrible.

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