The search for the Holy Grail of video games is due to begin this weekend in what is being billed as “the first archaeological expedition in the gaming era”. Organisers are counting on the fact that American deserts are still one of the best place to find aliens as they prepare to excavate a landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico on 26 April in search of more than a million cartridges of Atari’s ill-fated video game “ET the Extraterrestrial”.

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