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In 1983, Atari buried millions of unsold games in the New Mexico desert

Ellsworth Toohey
Dec 23, 2025
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By taylorhatmaker - Atari E.T. Dig: Alamogordo, New Mexico, CC BY 2.0, Link

The legend sounded too perfect to be true: a video game company, humiliated by the worst game ever made, crushing millions of unsold cartridges and burying them under concrete in the New Mexico desert. For three decades, people argued whether it actually happened. In 2014, they d…

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