Digging in Alamogordo, New Mexico today, excavators discovered cartridges for the critically-panned Atari game E.T., buried in a landfill way back in 1983 after Atari couldn't figure out what else to do with their unsold copies.
So apparently the urban legends are true
http://kotaku.com/e-t-found-in-new-mexico-landfill-1568100161