Talk Nerdy To Me

The Atari Graveyard was an urban legend for many years. The rumor was in 1983 Atari dumped a few semi truckloads of Atari product when the games market bottomed out. This was just after the infamous E.T. game that tanked (I personally kinda liked the game). They unfairly pinned the demise of Atari on the E.T. game so much that it became synonymous with video game failures. In 2014 a group got together to either prove or disprove the urban legend. The old dumpsite had been closed and covered over for many years. Some of the old dump workers got together and their memories and pictures from when Atari arrived to dump stuff and they narrowed it down to about 4 acres of possibility. On April 16, 2014 they excavated some of the buried Atari products. The city of Alamogordo was allowed to keep some of the findings and they have been selling them on Ebay. For me, it is a very cool little nerdy thing to have. They will likely keep them listed on Ebay until they all sell. Just do a search for "Atari Burial Alamogordo"