UNEARTHED: The first recovered Atari cartridge and packaging recovered from the old Alamogordo landfill are shown in New Mexico. A copy has since been sent to the Smithsonian for posterity.
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico: A copy of a vintage ET Atari videogame extracted from a New Mexico landfill where hundreds of the cartridges were dumped after the game flopped in the 1980s has made its way to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.
The games were found earlier this year near Alamogordo, about 200 miles (320 km) southeast of Albuquerque. The mystery behind who dumped them, and why, inspired a documentary film by Microsoft Corp's Xbox Entertainment Studios.
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