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Atari games found buried in a landfill sell for $37,000

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It turns out people are willing to shell out quite a bit of money for a video game that is considered among the worst ever made


Hundreds of Atari 2600 games that were buried three decades ago were unearthed in a landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico, in April. Earlier this month, the city's Tularosa Basin Historical Society put them up for sale on eBay, and boy did it pay off.



The games were the subject of an urban legend (which turned out to be at least partially true) that a collection of E.T. video game cartridges for the Atari 2600 were buried in a New Mexico desert near an atomic bomb site to cover up the massive failure of the game. Read more...


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