[Gaming News] In 1983, Atari buried thousands of unsold video game cartridges in a landfill in New Mexico

[TheDude @ LCS]

In 1983, Atari buried thousands of unsold video game cartridges in a landfill in New Mexico, including many copies of the famously unsuccessful E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial game. This dramatic event happened during the video game market crash of 1983, when the industry suffered severe losses due to oversaturation and poor quality control. For years it was almost an urban legend, but in 2014 excavators actually unearthed many of these buried games during a documented dig.

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