In 1983, Atari secretly buried truckloads of unsold video games in a New Mexico landfill; when the site was excavated in 2014, about 1,300 cartridges were recovered, some later selling for hundreds or thousands of dollars | World News
AI-generated representative image: Unsold video game cartridges are depicted being buried under landfill waste, illustrating the reported disposal of Atari cartridges in a New Mexico landfill in 1983. Credits: ChatGPT At a landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico, in September 1983, Atari disposed of truckloads of video-game cartridges and computer equipment. Among the material were cartridges … Read more