Atari 2600 cartridges unearthed in New Mexico to be sold
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The Alamogordo Commission (New Mexico, USA) will put up for sale a portion of the 1,377 Atari 2600 console cartridges thatThey remained buried for more than 30 yearsin a landfill in this city.
According to the reportMayor Susie Galea, heNew Mexico Museum of Space Historywill receive700 cartsto be examined and sold to the public together with acertificate of authenticity. Although he did not give details about the price, he hinted that it "will reflect the rarity" of each cartridge.
As for therest of cartridges, 100 of them will be delivered toLightbox and Fuel Entertainment, the production companies behind thedocumentarythat Microsoft is preparing on themythical burialAdditionally, there will be a batch that will be distributed between the National Air and Space Museum of theSmithsonian Institutionand other local exhibitions.
In theexcavationsperformedOn April 26, 171 copies ofE.T. The Extraterrestrial-whose commercial failure precipitated the collapse of the video game industry; as well as others such as Centipede, Missile Command and Asteroids.
Galea indicated that the open pit was filled again, leavingnearly 700 thousand buried cartridgeshoping to later turn the site into atourist attraction
"The excavation was much deeper, much deeper than they thought it would be. They thought it would be 18 meters deep and instead it was 30 (meters)," he concluded.
At the end of April theAtari E.T. cartridges, with which it isconfirmed a legend that had always existed within the industryof video games.
With information fromEngadgetNSM
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