E.T Excavation Documentary 'Atari: Game Over' Official Trail

[TrekMD]

Back in April excavators successfully unearthed an urban legend after digging at Atari's legendary landfill site. Not only was the team behind the upcoming documentary Atari: Game Over able to locate numerous copies of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial underground, but also countless other 2600 games and accessories. Since this discovery, the documentary seems to be making good progress as an all new trailer for the upcoming film has been released.

As dull as a documentary on digging may sound, Atari: Game Over covers all aspects of the history behind this gaming legend from interviews with the game's designer and various key figures at Atari, to a retrospective look at the companies rise to fame. This also includes various snippets, scans, footage and other unseen assets from the Atari archives, many of which will no doubt have any retro gamer's curiosity piqued.

According to the documentary's trailer, Atari: Game Over is due to be released later this year in Autumn digitally at Xboxvideo.com.

Source: RetroCollect

[VectorX]

Great trailer!

[Mayhem]

I was at the panel for it at SDCC, and yes, it's looking pretty good. I'm very much up on the history and always believed the legend was true, there was something buried, just a question of what. We now know it was a lot of different things that also included quite a few ET and Pac-Man cartridges!

I also got quite a sizeable round of applause from the audience during the Q&A session when I insisted that ET and Pac-Man were not the worst 2600 games released and there were far more horrible examples to use

[TrekMD]

Jul 26, 2014 19:31:53 GMT -5 Mayhem said:

I also got quite a sizeable round of applause from the audience during the Q&A session when I insisted that ET and Pac-Man were not the worst 2600 games released and there were far more horrible examples to use

You got that right!

[VectorX]

Glad we're not the only ones to know the truth