Last month, thousands of copies of ET (along with other Atari games) were found buried beneath the New Mexico desert. James Heller was the man responsible for that.
https://lastchance.cc/e-t-found-in-new-mexico-landfill-1568100161%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
He also seeks to clarify another long-standing rumour about the burial, that the games were buried under concrete. He says they were, but not when first buried; they only added it later, after theyād caught local kids travelling out to the site and digging games up.
Having been asked to do a job, and having done so publicly enough that kids at the time knew where to dig the games up, Heller is a little bemused that the story has taken on mythical qualities in subsequent decades.ā[Thereās] no mystery whatsoever. People made it a mystery.ā
Nampa man says he buried Atari video games 30 years ago [KBOI, via Game Politics]
