Atari ET game landfill spoils fetch $37,000 on eBay

Atari ET game landfill spoils fetch $37,000 on eBay

Geobros|12 years ago|Culture

Eurogamer:

" The first auction of Atari games uncovered from their 30-year resting place in a New Mexico landfill has raised more than $37,000 (£23k).

100 cartridges were placed on eBay earlier this month of an eventual 800 that will be offered up for auction.

The games were unearthed during this summer's archaeological dig at a dumping ground in Alamogordo, New Mexico, which for three decades had been the final resting place of thousands of unwanted Atari 2600 cartridges."

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