Atari video game burial
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atari-video-game-burial-189-6128979
title:
Atari video game burial
text:
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 the American video game and home computer company Atari, Inc. in 1983. Before 2014, the goods buried were rumored to be unsold copies of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), one of the largest commercial video game failures and often cited as one of the worst video games ever released, and the 1982 Atari 2600 port of Pac-Man, which was commercially succ
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description:
1983 burial of unsold video games
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_video_game_burial
date created:
2007-08-07T06:25:04Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T18:25:26Z
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