E.T.’s March

posted by Steven Clontz on Feb 17

The year is 1983. It’s a dark year for video gamers everywhere, with headlines rocking the industry, creating negative press unlike that we experience today.

CHILD OBESITY LINKED TO PAC MEN “MUNCHING” SENSATION

STUDY SHOWS 90% OF TRAFFIC OFFENDERS PLAYED SPY HUNTER THIS YEAR

HIDDEN SEXUAL INNUENDO FOUND IN HACKED POLE POSITION ARCADE GAME

But perhaps the darkest news story was run in the Alamogordo Daily News.

DUMP HERE UTILIZED - TONS OF ATARI GAMES BURIED

It was in this year that the North American video game console industry came crumbling to its knees. And it was this event that caused it all. Burdened with thousands of copies of the worst video game ever made, E.T the Extraterrestrial, Atari shipped truckloads of the unsellable cartridges to be buried in the New Mexico desert.

We are proud to announce our upcoming documentary, E.T.’s March. Over the course of a week this March, we will go on a road trip from Auburn, AL, to El Paso, TX. From there, we will take the actual path those fourteen trucks took that fateful day, into the heart of Alamogordo, New Mexico. Along the way, we will take in the video game culture of our great country. The documentary will be released for free via the internet this summer.

Our website can be found at http://www.auburn.edu/~clontsc/etmarch/. To learn more about us and our story, please visit our About page. You can contact the director, Steven Clontz, at me@steben.net.

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