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Archaeologists dig up vintage Atari games from New Mexico landfill

A stockpile of vintage Atari video games buried more than 30 years ago in a New Mexico landfill will soon be for sale.

“By tonight it’s going to be worldwide that they’re available,” Atari Event Organizer Joe Lewandowski told KRQE News 13 Wednesday.

The city of Alamogordo owns the 800 games because they were buried in its landfill. The city says most of the games will be sold to the public, but some will go to museums.

Archaeologists dug up thousands of ET game cartridges in April, confirming a long-standing myth that the company buried the 1982 game because it was widely considered the worst video game ever made.

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