Atari games buried more than 30 years ago in New Mexico landfill

Daily Mail ^ | 9/2/15 | By Associated Press and Daily Mail Reporter

[Kartographer]

A cache of Atari game cartridges dug up in a New Mexico landfill last year has generated more than $100,000 in sales over the last several months.

The April 2014 dig ended speculation surrounding an urban legend and proved it to be true that Atari discarded hundreds of games, including E.T. The Extraterrestrial, more than 30 years ago.

In addition to the E.T. cartridges, Joseph Lewandowski found more than 60 other titles including Asteroids, Missile Command, Warlords, Star Raiders, Swordquest, Centipede and Super Breakout.

[Kartographer]

Proof that one man's junk is another man's treasure!

[Kartographer]

NM ping

[relictele]

Not even nostalgia can evoke a shred of enjoyment out of that bizarre ET game.

[freedumb2003]

Beats the heck out of an Indian Burial Ground!

[StoneWall Brigade]

Awesome

[max americana]

“Asteroids, Missile Command, Warlords, Star Raiders, Swordquest, Centipede and Super Breakout.”

What? No Space Invaders?

[FreedomPoster]

I’m sure that files of the pirated ROMs and emulators are out there. This stuff is only of interest to serious collectors. If you just want to play the games, you can.

[GeronL]

these thing still worked or what

[Fester Chugabrew]

BERZERK!

[kingu]

Atari Games is available in the Google Play store, no need to resort to illegal copies.

[FreedomPoster]

That wasn’t an Atari game.

[blackdog]

I remember British Leyland closing their dealerships in the United States. They forced the car dealers to smash every casting, cut every wiring harness up, render all components non-functional, and witness them to the landfill, smelter, or appropriate disposal.

Saddest month of my younger years.

[Disambiguator]

I remember British Leyland closing their dealerships in the United States. They forced the car dealers to smash every casting, cut every wiring harness up

At least some good came of that, if those were Lucas electrical components.

[Snickering Hound]

Space Invaders was ported from the arcade to the Atari 2600, but like most of those ports was a poor imitation.

[gdani]

That wasn’t an Atari game

[blackdog]

Easy on my Lord of Darkness, Lucas. I never drove without extras in the boot or glove box.

[tacticalogic]

I rolled over the score counter on that game once.

[gwgn02]

I had Intellivision version one and two. Now those games were very fun!

[MeshugeMikey]

also found....

another version of Barack Obama’s birth certificate

[BenLurkin]

Definitely not bio-degradable.