Clothing Worn by Andrew Reinhard during the 2014 "Atari Dig" Excavation at the Alamogordo, New Mexico Landfill
Details
Clothing Worn by Andrew Reinhard during the 2014 "Atari Dig" Excavation at the Alamogordo, New Mexico Landfill
Artifact
Clothing
Date Made
2005-2014
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 Atari Tomb" was resurrected from obscurity when it was unearthed in 2014; this clothing was worn by Andrew Reinhard, archeologist, during the world's first video game excavation.
Object ID
2015.84.1
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Andrew Reinhard.
Location
Not on exhibit to the public.
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Clothing Worn by Andrew Reinhard during the 2014 "Atari Dig" Excavation at the Alamogordo, New Mexico Landfill
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