WebNov 5, 2014 · The city of Alamogordo, New Mexico — where thousands of Atari items were dumped and buried in 1983 — is now selling copies of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Asteroids, Defender and other classic ... WebApr 26, 2014 · Last modified on Thu 16 Apr 2024 09.34 EDT. A documentary film production company has found buried in a New Mexico landfill hundreds of the Atari ET game cartridges that some call the worst video ...
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In September 1983, the Alamogordo Daily News of Alamogordo, New Mexico reported in a series of articles, that between 10 and 20 semi-trailer truckloads of Atari boxes, cartridges, and systems from an Atari storehouse in El Paso, Texas, were crushed and buried at the landfill within the city. It was Atari's first dealings with the landfill, which was chosen because no scavenging was allowed and it… WebApr 24, 2015 · Alamogordo's own Indiana Jones and Operational Consultant of the Atari dig project, Joe Lewandowski, hosted the event and spoke a few words before … park place hardware winsted ct
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WebSep 22, 2024 · In 1983, Atari buried 700,000 cartridges of video games at a landfill site in Alamogordo, New Mexico. It was a historic event in video game history – widely rumoured and discredited by some as... WebSep 10, 2014 · The city of Alamogordo, New Mexico, has decided to auction off more than half of the 1,300 unwanted vintage Atari video games discovered buried in a landfill. the … WebAug 31, 2015 · Remember the odd story about the hundreds of vintage Atari video games found buried in a landfill in a Alamogordo, New Mexico, desert? The tale, which inspired a documentary crew to dig up the... park place homes for sale