Ernest Cline is on the search for fact.

[Louie]

"Archaeology is the search for fact… not truth.
If it’s truth you’re looking for, Dr. Tyree’s philosophy class is right down the hall."
-Dr. Henry Jones, Jr., PhD

Ready Player One author, Ernest Cline is going on a quest. A quest to uncover the facts of a 30 year old legend involving a landfill and the worst video game in history. Read more details from Cline himself...

Raiders of the Lost Atari Graveyard

[Warren]

Go to google images and search for:
Atari breakout
Wait two seconds

[Paul]

Love that man

[Rob, Roberator]

Bookshelf wrote: "Go to google images and search for:
Atari breakout
Wait two seconds"

haha. nice.

[Fiona]

Is this dig by any chance inspired by the Angry Video Game Nerd movie?

[Warren]

One of the most infamous urban legends in video games has turned out to be true.
http://kotaku.com/e-t-found-in-new-me...
http://iurl.no/i1837

[terpkristin]

I still don't get this. Why?

[Warren]

terpkristin wrote: "I still don't get this. Why?"
Semi serious-
a.The people who grew up in the 1980s' really seem to be into their "Good old days"
b. Typical weekend news- Live converge from an Arizona land fill.
Some good stuff probably happened in the 80s.
I can't think of anything at the moment but it'll come to me.

[Andy]

terpkristin wrote: "I still don't get this. Why?"

It is one of the big urban myths in gaming, except that it is true. ET the game was horrid and Atari buried a bunch that they could not sell or were returned in a tax write off.

It is a little like big foot being real to the game world.

[terpkristin]

I prefer to think that the guys who organized this documentary went out last year and buried the ET cartridges to ensure they found it on their "dig." :P

[Warren]

terpkristin wrote: "I prefer to think that the guys who organized this documentary went out last year and buried the ET cartridges to ensure they found it on their "dig." :P"
Well the dig did up some copies of defender
http://www.virtualatari.org/soft.php?...
I found that part kind of hard to believe.

[Louie]

Cline's follow-up blog post-

The Dig has been Dug! What did we find inside the Lost Ark? [Dated- 1 May 2014]

[Warren]

A complete waste of time

Joust http://www.free80sarcade.com/joust.php
Zork http://www.web-adventures.org/cgi-bin...
Black Dragon http://www.kongregate.com/games/argon...
Atari adventure http://www.simmphonic.com/programming...