Big Demand For Buried Atari Games, Including So-Called Worst Video Game Ever Made
Posted: 06/01/2014 11:05 am EDT Updated: 4 hours ago
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FILE - In this April 26, 2014 file photo, film Director Zak Penn shows a box of a decades-old Atari 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial' game found in a dumpsite in Alamogordo, N.M., Producers of a documentary dug in an southeastern New Mexico landfill in search of millions of cartridges of the Atari 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial' game that has been called the worst game in the history of video gaming and were buried there in 1983. Officials in Alamogordo, are working on a plan under which film companie | ASSOCIATED PRESS
You know when you dig up the trash of primitive cultures it tells their life story. This dig reveals a find of ancient video games, which tells the story of the primitive culture that used them.
ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (AP) — Officials in southeastern New Mexico began work on a plan this week to divide a cache of Atari video games dug up from an old landfill last month.
Joe Lewandowski, a consultant for the film companies that documented the dig, issued a draft of a distribution plan to Alamogordo city officials on Tuesday.
Lewandowski said that some of the games should be given to the filmmakers, museums and the public, the Alamogordo Daily News reported (City still deciding what to do with Atari Games - Alamogordo Daily News).
"They're considered to have value because they're part of the legend," Lewandowski told The Associated Press on Friday. "It's a piece of history."
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Posted: 06/01/2014 11:05 am EDT Updated: 4 hours ago
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FILE - In this April 26, 2014 file photo, film Director Zak Penn shows a box of a decades-old Atari 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial' game found in a dumpsite in Alamogordo, N.M., Producers of a documentary dug in an southeastern New Mexico landfill in search of millions of cartridges of the Atari 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial' game that has been called the worst game in the history of video gaming and were buried there in 1983. Officials in Alamogordo, are working on a plan under which film companie | ASSOCIATED PRESS
You know when you dig up the trash of primitive cultures it tells their life story. This dig reveals a find of ancient video games, which tells the story of the primitive culture that used them.
ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (AP) — Officials in southeastern New Mexico began work on a plan this week to divide a cache of Atari video games dug up from an old landfill last month.
Joe Lewandowski, a consultant for the film companies that documented the dig, issued a draft of a distribution plan to Alamogordo city officials on Tuesday.
Lewandowski said that some of the games should be given to the filmmakers, museums and the public, the Alamogordo Daily News reported (City still deciding what to do with Atari Games - Alamogordo Daily News).
"They're considered to have value because they're part of the legend," Lewandowski told The Associated Press on Friday. "It's a piece of history."
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