From Wikipedia:
"the Atari video game burial of 1983 was an infamous event in video gaming history, in which Atari dumped thousands of video game cartridges, allegedly including a large number of copies of its video game adaptation E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, into a New Mexico landfill. It was one of the consequences of the North American video game crash of 1983. "E.T. is widely considered on of the biggest video game flops of all time and may have caused the crisis within the industry. I can tell you, the game play is terrible. But has anyone taken it upon themselves to go and seek out this treasure? Let's do it next time I'm down there.
