I couldn't pass this one up, having seen the story pop up a week or so ago. I came upon this now authenticated urban legend a couple of years ago in a conglomeration of video game myths and legends in an online news article. I was very intrigued at a number of them, though this one seemed entirely plausible given the reason for the dump. I've played the E.T. game, and yeah, it is pretty tough. My friend had a survival board game, I don't know what it was officialy called, but he and his family always called it "And Then You Die," because no matter how you played it, you took two to three turns, and then you die. The Atari E.T. game was pretty much like that. You wander around, turn white, and then you die. About all you could do is stretch your neck and make a flower grow. I thought that it was a hard game because I was just a little kid, but when I read about everyone hating the game and returning them, leaving Atari sitting on a million unsold copies, it made sense. I never doubted this urban legend for a second, so it was no surprise to me that they dug them up this past month. I was surprised however to hear that there were other games that were dug up as well. Kind of cool. You can read a little more about it on the TeeFury blog.
Now someone just needs to find a Polybius cabinet and I'll be really impressed.
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