Atari E.T.The Burial Howard Scott Warshaw Called False
Atari E.T. really was buried, yet its programmer Howard Scott Warshaw answered "I say false".
The legend is true, and stranger: the night trucks, the guards, the concrete poured once kids got in, and the dig that found it.
Sources
8- Book5
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Numbered in the order the description lists them. Read dates are when the page was consulted; the live page may have changed since.
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[1]
The Ultimate History of Video Games: From Pong to Pokémon and Beyond
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[2]
Master of the Game: Steve Ross and the Creation of Time Warner
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[3]
Atari Inc.: Business Is Fun
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[4]
Replay: The History of Video Games
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[5]
DP Interviews… Howard Scott Warshaw
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Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System
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[7]
Total Failure: Creating The World's Worst Video Game
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[8]
Howard Scott Warshaw Pleads Not Guilty to Killing Video Games
Image & music credits
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