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Hunting for an E.T. Castoff in a Most Terrestrial Place
We’re 100 percent going to be digging,” assured the company’s chief executive, Mike Burns, though he cautioned that “there might be nothing” in the hole or “there might be the holy grail of video games.”
There is no definitive account of that day in September 1983 when the trucks brought the Atari haul here, just versions that seem to feed on one another, changing slightly as they travel from one online forum to the next, as in a virtual game of telephone.
One story put the number of trucks at 20. Others say there were 10 or 14. Mr. Lewandowski recalled last week that 29 trucks had left Atari’s plant in El Paso, Tex., just over the border from New Mexico, and that 9 had made it to the landfill.
“The other 20,” he said, “no one knows what happened.”
There is a lingering rumor that one of the trucks was hijacked along the way and taken to Mexico, never to be seen again.
We’re 100 percent going to be digging,” assured the company’s chief executive, Mike Burns, though he cautioned that “there might be nothing” in the hole or “there might be the holy grail of video games.”
There is no definitive account of that day in September 1983 when the trucks brought the Atari haul here, just versions that seem to feed on one another, changing slightly as they travel from one online forum to the next, as in a virtual game of telephone.
One story put the number of trucks at 20. Others say there were 10 or 14. Mr. Lewandowski recalled last week that 29 trucks had left Atari’s plant in El Paso, Tex., just over the border from New Mexico, and that 9 had made it to the landfill.
“The other 20,” he said, “no one knows what happened.”
There is a lingering rumor that one of the trucks was hijacked along the way and taken to Mexico, never to be seen again.