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A couple of months ago multimedia company Fuel Entertainment announced that it would be making a documentary about excavating the legendary E.T. cartridges that were allegedly buried in a New Mexico desert in September of 83. It's a fascinating project, to be sure, as it revisits one of the industry's most catastrophic moments. To find out more about this project, I spoke to Fuel's director of communications Nick Iannitti.First off, I ask Iannitti how confident he is that there's actually something there, as there are a lot of conflicting reports about exactly what went down in 83.
"We're confident enough to dig for it," he laughs. "As you saw if you watched any TV interviews or read any articles [featuring] the mayor and other folks who were involved in it in the 80s - there appears to be a very strong chance that something was buried there from Atari. Whether it's the mythical El Dorado of ET cartridges, we don't know. But the only way to find out is to dig for it."
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