Atari: Game Over Documentary Trailer Makes the E.T. Video Game Look Fun for the First Time Ever

At first glance, this trailer about a bunch of buried cartridges of a really terrible game might look a tad overdramatic, but there’s an incredibly interesting story about the video game industry’s near dissolution lying just under that initial impression. Luckily, Microsoft didn’t bury all of its Xbox TV content in the desert when they axed Xbox Entertainment Studios, and this documentary will premiere on Xbox Live in the fall.

(via /Film)

Previously in a New Mexico burial site

• You can buy the exhumed E.T. cartridges now
• It was a long road toward finally digging them up
• Wow, these early E.T. designs were scarier than how bad the game was

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