Soil Sample Recovered from Landfill, Alamogordo, New Mexico, April 26, 2014, Site of the Atari Video Game Burial of 1983
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Soil Sample Recovered from Landfill, Alamogordo, New Mexico, April 26, 2014, Site of the Atari Video Game Burial of 1983
Artifact
Soil
Summary
In 1983, rumors circulated: Atari was bankrupt, and was dumping truckloads of games into a New Mexico landfill. Victim to the "Video Game Crash," the company buried 700,000 cartridges in the desert. The story became an obscure legend -- until "The Atari Tomb" was unearthed in 2014. This dirt was recovered from the site of the world's first video game excavation.
Object ID
2015.13.5
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of the City of Alamogordo, New Mexico.
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Soil Sample Recovered from Landfill, Alamogordo, New Mexico, April 26, 2014, Site of the Atari Video Game Burial of 1983
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