Atari Dump Site (Alamogordo, New Mexico, USA)
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Site Name Keywords
Atari Dump Site
Site Type Keywords
Archaeological Feature •
Midden •
Trash Midden
Other Keywords
game cartridge •
Atari 2600 •
Atari 5200
Culture Keywords
Modern
Investigation Types
Data Recovery / Excavation
Material Types
Game Media
Geographic Keywords
New Mexico (State / Territory) •
Otero County (County) •
United States of America (Country) •
North America (Continent) •
USA (Country) •
Alamogordo City Landfill
Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 1-2 of 2)
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Atari eBay Auctions (2016)
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Alamogordo ran eBay auctions on 44 separate days between November 13, 2014, and August 4, 2015, each day’s listings consisting of 1–96 individual lots. Each of the auctioned games came with a metal City of Alamogordo property tag and ID number as well as a certificate of authenticity signed by the mayor, Susie Galea, and by Howard Scott Warshaw, Atari wunderkind developer and creator of the E.T. game. Despite the variable conditions of the artifacts, the games served (and still serve) as a...
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Manifest of Excavated Atari Games (2014)
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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),...