In 1983, Atari Dumped Entire Trucks of Unsold Video Games Into a Landfill: 29 Years Later, 1300 Cartridges Were Found and some Sold Thousands of Dollars

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In September 1983, Atari destroyed tens of thousands of unsold cartridges in the desert of New Mexico, including the infamous extraterrestrial E.T.. Thirty-one years later, shovellers came out of the sand of Alamogordo much more than just a legend of videoludic crash: 1,300 cartridges, a handful of dollars, and a pan of [...]

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Atari wanted his unsold ones to disappear, so the company buried them in a dump in New Mexico. Thirty years later, 1,300 cartridges came out of the sand and sold themselves at a price of gold.