- Raiders of the Lost Atari Graveyard!

Through some strange miracle of fate, I have been invited to be one of the “archaeologists” present during the upcoming excavation of the legendary Atari Graveyard! XBox Entertainment Studios is producing a documentary on the dig, and the director Zak Penn invited me to come down and provide commentary on what they find – or don’t find – during the excavation. And you’re invited to be there, too, to witness video game history in the making!

This is pretty damn cool. If you don't know the legend of the E.T. Atari landfill, I can't imagine where you've been. It's one of gaming's greatest pieces of trivia/legend. You can read about it plenty of places on the web, but long story short, apocrypha would have it that Atari's ET was such a miserable experience, thousands of cartridges were doomed to landfill.

I think the first time I heard about it, it was very much urban myth. Over time, it seems to have been revealed to be based in truth and ultimately taken as fact. Reality should become blistered fact when they dig it all up for the documentary. Should be very fun!