Alamogordo – Trinity, Roswell and the burial of 728,000 Atari game cartridges

Alamogordo, N.M., Zip Code 73286

Wow. The first atomic bomb melted sand at the Trinity site not far from Alamogordo. Roswell is not to far, either. And in 1983, Atari reportedly buried in a land fill several million game cartridges that “sucked,” in the word of someone who dug up several games.

Rumors and rumors of rumors and Atari issued a statement and then “What we meant to say was …” and “Well, what really happened was …” and “This is our final statement.”

Or as Wikipedia says: “The Atari video game burial was a mass burial of unsold video game cartridges, consoles, and computers in a New Mexico landfill site, undertaken by American video game and home computer company Atari, Inc. in 1983. The goods disposed of through the burial were generally believed to have been unsold copies of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, a game which had become one of the biggest commercial failures in video gaming and is often cited as one of the worst video games ever released; and the Atari 2600 port of Pac-Man, which had been commercially successful but critically maligned.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_video_game_burial