Atari continued to acquire licenses for the 2600 , the most prominent of which included '' Pac-Man '' &mdash; which critics slammed as " Flicker-Man " &mdash; and '' E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial '' , which was designed and programmed in six weeks . Public disappointment with these two games and the market saturation of poor third-party titles helped trigger the video game crash of 1983 . In September 1983 , Atari buried 14 truckloads of cartridges and other equipment in the New Mexico desert , an event later labeled the Atari video game burial . Warner , tired of supporting Atari , started looking for buyers in 1984
Atari video game burial
Atari video game burial
Atari 2600