The legend is true, E.T. games really were burried in a New Mexican Landfill

Urban legends are fun, but most of the times, they're so far fetched that there's no way they are real. However, there's always that grain of "this could actually happen." Well, here's one that is real.

Greetings, and welcome to happy gamer rambles. A blog where I ramble about my thoughts on videogame news and trends. A little over a week ago, I heard about the E.T. landfill dig that will tell us once and for all if millions of Atari E.T. games are buried in a New Mexican Landfill. Well, it happened this weekend and what is probably the best news ever happened, there REALLY WAS MILLIONS OF E.T. GAMES BURIED IN THE LANDFILL!

No really, Atari actually dumped it's excess E.T. games in a landfill. Check out the Kotaku and Yahoo Games articles on it. I'm sure that by the time you're reading this there will be way more articles on it. But it's real. The legend is real. And as a testament to the durability of cartridge games, someone plugged one into an Atari and it worked.

So what do I have to say on this, I'm ecstatic. This is such great news. I loved the legend. I loved telling people about the legend. I just loved the idea of the company responsible for the worst game ever made burying their leftover inventory in a New Mexican landfill that doesn't allow garbage picking just so the public won't be able to get their hands on easy game copies. When I told people about this dig event, I actually had to tell a fair amount of people about the legend and the game. Looks like my original "everyone has heard of Atari E.T." statement was a little inaccurate, but that just meant that I got to tell people the legend and the history of Atari E.T. It was always a fun story to tell, but I always had to preface with "the legend says" or "according to popular theory" or some other "I can't say this is fact but this is what many people say happened." Now I know it's true. Now when I tell the legend, I can say "this actually happened, on April 26th 2014, almost 30 years after the games were buried, a dig crew got permission to dig the landfill and found thousands, maybe millions of E.T. cartridges." I only wish I was there to see it personally and dig up my own landfill Atari E.T. I want one really bad. Hopefully I can buy one for a reasonable price on eBay. That way, I would have a "to play" copy and a "landfill display" copy.

Well this has been happy gamer signing out. And remember, even if an urban legend seems a little far fetched, it just may end up being true.