Remember that story of how Atari buried a bunch of their games in a landfill , and how they were rediscovered last year ? Now , some of the convalesce cartridgeshave sold for over $ 100,000 .
As the video plot market crashed in the mid-1980s , Atari disposed of much of their nimiety games , including their infamous adaptation of E.T. in a New Mexico landfill , prompting urban legend among flake circles . Three decades later , Joe Lewandowski , along with a film crew documented the find of the cache of game , which was then feature in a documentary called Atari : Game Over .
Now , Lewandowski has donated the return from the on-line auctions of some of those recovered cartridge to the urban center of Alamogordo , New Mexico . The City will pick up $ 65,000 , while $ 16,000 will go to the Tularosa Basin Historical Society . The rest of the proceeds will go towards expenses associated with the auctions .
fit in to the Alamogordo Daily News , emptor from all over the mankind snatch up the artefact :
Out of the 881 game that were sold , six games were sold to Brazil and Australia , three in Singapore , 22 in France , 54 in Canada and over 752 in the United States alone just to name a few .
The highest Atari 2600 E.T. The Extra - Terrestrial magazine went for $ 1,535 . Over 60 titles were sell on eBay let in Asteroids , Missile Command , Warlords , Defender , Star Raiders , Swordquest , Phoenix , Centipede and Super Breakout .
In addition to end up in the manpower of collectors , some of the games have since end up in a telephone number of museums around the earth . The metropolis is also bear onto a couple of hundred recover games for future sale .
[ Philly.comandAlamogordo Daily News , h / t to Scott Johnson ]
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