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Atari Dig

Crews begin digging at the old Alamogordo, N.M., landfill on Friday April 25, 2014, to search for copies of the Atari game “E.T. The Extraterrestrial” purportedly buried there in the 1980s. The game is considered among gamers to be one of the worst ever and is believed to have contributed to the demise of Atari.

Hidden for three decades in a landfill deep in the New Mexico desert lie thousands of Atari cartridges from what is widely believed to be worst video game ever made — or so the urban legend goes.

“Bottom line, this is just trash. But there is a legend in it, we want to unlock that legend, that mystery,” a spokeswoman for the public relations firm working on behalf of Xbox Entertainment Studios, one of the companies developing the film. The documentary is expected to be released later this year on Microsoft’s Xbox game consoles.

Filmakers set to dig through New Mexico landfill for trashed copies of infamously bad Atari game - here’s why: http://t.co/eGAkn8mHhm

— The Associated Press (@AP) April 26, 2014

Future folks: This is so bad that we better hang on to it.