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 • game instruction manual • Atari comic book • blister pack • boxed retail games • Atari controller

Culture Keywords
Modern

Investigation Types
Data Recovery / Excavation

Material Types
Hardware • Printed Material • Game Media

Geographic Keywords
New Mexico (State / Territory) • Otero County (County) • United States of America (Country) • North America (Continent) • USA (Country) • Alamogordo City Landfill

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  • Atari Dump Site (Alamogordo, New Mexico, USA)
    PROJECT Andrew Reinhard. Joe Lewandowski. Zak Penn.

    Atari, Inc. dumped ca. 800,000 video game cartridges into a specially dug cell in the Alamogordo, NM city landfill in September 1983. This action, even though it was reported in the New York Times and Alamogordo Daily News, became an urban legend stating that Atari dumped its unpopular E.T. games, rumored to be the "worst video game ever made." On April 26, 2014, the City of Alamogordo in cooperation with archaeologists and a documentary film crew, excavated the cell and recovered just over...