speculated that most unsold copies of E.T. are buried in this landfill, crushed and encased in cement. [ 57 ] The story of the buried cartridges was regarded by some as an urban legend , with skeptics—including Warshaw—disregarding the official accounts. [ 11 ] [ 36 ] [ 39 ] On May 28, 2013, the Alamogordo City Commission approved Fuel Industries , an Ottawa -based entertainment company, for six months of landfill access both to create a documentary about the legend and to excavate the burial site. [ 58 ] On April 26, 2014, remnants of E.T. and other Atari games were discovered in the early hours of the excavation. [ 59 ] [ 5 ] The disposal is also the basis for the upcoming independent film Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie in which the eponymous Nerd (played by James Rolfe , who is also the creator of the character of the same name ) seeks to learn whether or not the legend is true while attempting to avoid capture by government agents who think he's looking for evidence both of actual ETs as well as confirmation that Area 51 is used for alien study. [ 60 ] In February 2013, several unofficial fixes for the game were released by Neocomputer.org, a small personal website unrelated to Atari. [ 61 ] The website details the long standing issues of the game and provides commentary on the errors, including instruction on fixing it. According to Neocomputer, the infamous issue with