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    Atari's E.T. Graveyard to be excavated for documentary!

    Appreciate that, and yes, I'm familiar with Rik. However, the Cosmos he's showing is my book partner Curt Vendel's. As for info on it, we went directly to it's creator, Al Alcorn and members of his group. We have the full story behind it's creation and eventual cancelation in the book as well...
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    Atari's E.T. Graveyard to be excavated for documentary!

    There were never any prototypes of any sort dumped there and I don't know where that rumor started. The El Passo, Texas plant was just a manufacturing plant, manufacturing actual games and hardware in production. Game programming, hardware design, etc. were done out of Sunnyvale, California were...
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    Atari's E.T. Graveyard to be excavated for documentary!

    I wouldn't say mystery titles, it was just whatever was in manufacturing at the time of the changeover of the plant. Some of the titles were mentioned in the press as well - people watching the operation and kids raiding the dump reported Raiders of The Lost Ark, Pac-Man, Mrs. Pac-Man, E.T...
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    Atari inc. Business is fun. Definitive atari history book.

    Hope you enjoy it, please write a review of it on Amazon when you're done. :) Marty
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    Atari's E.T. Graveyard to be excavated for documentary!

     We already cleared that up in our book "Atari Inc. - Business Is Fun" released last fall, going by direct interviews and actual internal documents. There were never thousands of ET games buried in Alamorgodo, that's a myth that sprung up later and was also never once mentioned by the actual...
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