A video game that's widely considered to be the worst ever made is going up for auction today.

Copies of 1982's  "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial" were recently unearthed from a landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico.

The fact that the Atari cartridges ended up there was the result of epic commercial failure.

Almost nobody liked the game, which played a role in Atari's huge financial problems in 1982 and 1983.

The general awfulness of the Atari 2600 game is largely attributed to the developer, who had only five and-a-half weeks to create it.

In 1983, more than a dozen semi-trailer trucks dumped the unwanted games in the landfill.

The local historical society is putting 100 copies up on eBay to start, and may eventually sell as many as 800.

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