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  • The Smithsonian welcomes excavated E.T. cartridge

    The Smithsonian has acquired one of the excavated Atari 2600 cartridges for E.T. the Extra Terrestrial.
    While currently not on display, museum specialist Drew Robarge wrote about the acquisition and its importance in a new blog post addressing the unearthed Atari failure.
    Robarge noted that video games are already well presented at the museum with the "Brown Box" prototype for the first video game console, a Pong cabinet and more, but there was nothing in the collection to signify the medium's crash in the early 80s.
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