Read moreSaw this uncaptioned in my feed and had to investigate. In Murder She Wrote s10e05: “A Virtual Murder”, Angela Lansbury travels to Silicon Valley because a game company wants a script doctor to fix their VR murder mystery before a press presentation. Did you know there was a VR episode of Murder She Wrote? WHY DIDN’T YOU TELL ME. This possibly wonderful gem of early 90s enthusiasm for VR is on Netflix.
The 1982 Atari game for E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is famously the “worst game ever made.” In fact, it was such a disaster that all the unsold copies were rumored to have been dumped in a New Mexico landfill site, giving rise to one of the most popular unsolved urban legends in gamer culture.
Now, that landfill is going to be excavated. Meaning that we’ve already reached the point where 1980s video game history counts as archaeology. Feeling old, yet?
Microsoft is paying to excavate the landfill where the “worst video game ever made” is buried.
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The Committee to Nuke Elysium 