Manifest of Excavated Atari Games

Creator(s): Joe Lewandowski

Analyst(s): Andrew Reinhard

Year: 2014

Summary

The table contains two headers. The lower header separates the games into either “box” (a boxed cartridge) or “cart” (a loose cartridge). There is no indication of whether boxed cartridges were either blister-packed or part of a carton of six games. The upper header lists the total number of games first, and then subdivides those into games given to Lightbox Entertainment (as per their agreement with Alamogordo), games sold by the city on eBay (see the related eBay file in this tDAR collection), games sent to museums, games that went unsold during the first round of eBay auctions, and games retained by Alamogordo either for future sale or for inclusion in the permanent Atari exhibit at the Tularosa Basin Historical Museum.

Cite this Record

Manifest of Excavated Atari Games. Joe Lewandowski. 2014 ( tDAR id: 459205) ; doi:10.48512/XCV8459205

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

Data Set Structure

Measurement Column
Count Column
Coded Column
Filename Column
Integration Column (has Ontology)

Table Information: ATARI GAME INVENTORY

Column Name Data Type Type Category Coding Sheet Ontology Search
RETAIN VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
RETAIN VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
2ND CHANCE VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
2ND CHANCE VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
MUSEUM VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
MUSEUM VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
SOLD VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
SOLD VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
FILM CO. VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
FILM CO. VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
TOTAL VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
TOTAL VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
TITLE VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true

Keywords

Culture
Modern

Material
Game Media

Site Name
Atari Dump Site

Site Type
Trash Midden

Investigation Types
Data Recovery / Excavation

General
Atari 2600 • Atari 5200 • game cartridge

Geographic Keywords
Alamogordo City Landfill

Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: 1983 to 1983 (Year of deposit by Atari, Inc.)

Spatial Coverage

min long: -105.984; min lat: 32.879 ; max long: -105.957; max lat: 32.903 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contributor(s): Bret Weber; William Caraher

Field Director(s): Richard Rothaus

Lab Director(s): Raiford Guins

Principal Investigator(s): Joe Lewandowski

Project Director(s): Andrew Reinhard

Sponsor(s): Zak Penn

Notes

Rights & Attribution: All content provided on tDAR was used by permission of all associated with the project and is hereby committed to the public domain (CC0).

Source Collections

The Strong National Museum of Play (Rochester, NY, USA)

Tularosa Basin Historical Museum (Alamogordo, NM, USA)

Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC, USA)

Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation (Dearborn, Michigan, USA)

VIGAMUS - The Video Game Museum of Rome (Rome, Italy)

File Information

  Name Size Creation Date Date Uploaded Access
ATARI-GAME-INVENTORY.xlsx 38.26kb Jun 1, 2014 Apr 15, 2021 6:32:17 AM Public
Excel spreadsheet containing a full accounting of all of the Atari games recovered during the April 26, 2014, salvage of the Atari Dump Site, Alamogordo, NM.