E.T. Phone Home

“The idea of things is more important than their reality,” Bogost continued. “The idea of the game is what this [excavation] is after, though, not the game itself. The legendary E.T., the E.T. that ruined the industry, etc… Even though, once you find it, then what? Then you take Instagrams, that’s what.”

Saturday the 26th of April a crew of documentary filmmakers excavated a landfill in New Mexico in search of the legendary buried Atari E.T. games. And they found it.

Loads of blogs reported on it, but most were just repeating the same old. Yet this is a most interesting piece that looks at the whole situation from a point of view with facts. Some thing were not so mythical at all. And Ian Bogost gives a good perspective on it all. Taking with it the definitin of legend and myth in the age of the net.

Digging up meaning from the rubble of an excavated Atari landfill