Atari, a name synonymous with video games. The creators of hits such as Pitfall!, Adventure, Centipede and Asteroids. Atari's name and nickname will forever be remembered as one of America's first successful video game companies. But what success? This action is considered by the gaming community to be one of the most outrageous and ridiculous actions in video game history, and in recent years it has acquired the title of urban legend. In the early 1980s, Atari was the leading video game company in America. Atari predicted that they would make huge profits between 1980 and 1985. When Steven Spielberg arrived at Atari in July 1982 to ask them to make a game version of his famous film ET, Atari promised him millions of dollars in royalties, even millions of dollars. if the game failed – and they could do it by September of that year – an impossible deadline. At Christmas 1982, ET The Game was released. By the end of 1983, Atari had lost more than $500 million and Warner Bros. sold Atari that year, leading many to believe that this was due to ET's commercial failure. Rumor has it that ET The Game was so terrible that Atari took all returned copies of the game and threw them in a landfill in the New Mexico desert. Obviously, this results in a mass “burial”. (Kent, 2001) According to many sources and the gaming community, Atari buried these games in Alamogordo. Based on the testimony of pedestrians, utility workers, passers-by and Atari itself, we know that they [Atari] delivered them to the dump by truck. And now, due to the great popularity of this legend, several companies are planning to excavate this landfill. (Hilliard, 2014) (Miami Herald Media Co., 2014) (McQuiddy, Dump Here Utilized, 1983) (McQuiddy, ...... middle of paper ......ction; Atari was losing money and had to We also have sources that say Atari has done the same thing in the past. Without a doubt, we clearly see the truth of the story – it's true. Bibliography Hilliard, K. (March 21, 2014). Lanfill Move Forward. Retrieved April 8, 2012 from Game Informer Magazine: http://www.gamepolitique.com/b/news/archive/2014/03/21/concerted-effort-to-unearth-rumored-atari-. -landfill-cache-moves-forward.aspxKent, S. (2001). New York: Three Rivers Press. McQuiddy, M. (1983, September 27). . Alamogordo Daily News, p. n/a. McQuiddy, M. (1983, September 25). New Mexico leads the way for Atari Games Dig. .