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Atari video game burial

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The Atari games were buried here at the Alamogordo City Landfill.

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Atari 2600 consoles and cartridges were amongst the material reportedly disposed of as a result of the burial.[1]

The Atari video game burial was a mass burial of unsold video game cartridges, consoles, and computers in a New Mexico landfill site, undertaken by American video game and home computer company Atari, Inc. in 1983. The goods disposed of through the burial are generally believed to have been several million copies of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, a game which had become one of the biggest commercial failures in video gaming; and the Atari 2600 port of Pac-Man, which had been commercially successful but critically maligned.

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