We've all heard it before, the story of the Great Atari Landfill. According to legend, Atari 2600's E.T. game sold so terribly, that in an attempt to literally bury the stink-bomb, a landfill was created out of all the unsold copies.

Devoted researcher, DigitalMadman, has created a whole website on the study of this phenomenon and tackles his subject with a fervor that would make Agents Mulder & Scully jealous. Through interviews and meticulous research he has set out to prove that the legendary pile of plastic actually exists and reveals the real some truths behind of legend.

What now has become stuff of urban legend (and many people doubting the event even happened), Atari Inc. sent a reported 10 to 20 semi trucks loaded to brim with unsold/returned Atari game carts, unsold Atari consoles, and countless other related hardware from it's El Paso warehouse. Where was it's destination? The answer, Alamogordo, New Mexico. Where as the story goes, the trucks were emptied into the local landfill and the Atari materials had concrete poured on top of them. Where they remain buried to this day.

Coincidentally, Alamogordo happens to be just southeast of the infamous Roswell. Will DigitalMadman really find a huge pile of Atari excrement a scant 50 miles from the world's most famous alien landing pad? Perhaps it will finally give truth to the theory that there is more than one extra-terrestrial buried in the New Mexico desert. (Insert X-Files theme here) Flynn De Marco

The Atari Landfill Revealed [Digital Madman]