"Pac-Man"Atari: Recovered Alamogordo NM

The Atari video game burial was a mass burial of unsold video game cartridges, consoles, and computers in a New Mexico landfill site, undertaken by Atari, Inc. in 1983. Up until 2014, the goods buried were rumored to be unsold copies of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, one of the biggest commercial failures in video gaming and often cited as one of the, if not the, worst video game ever released. Although Pac-Man wasn't as bad, games were also dumped in1983. Location Alamogordo, NewMexico Coordinates 32°53′11.87″N 105°57′38.69″WParticipantsAtari, Inc.,first reported in the press, there had been doubts as to the burial. Fuel Industries, Microsoft, and others worked with the New Mexico government to excavate the site to validate the contents of the landfill as part of a documentary called(Atari:Game)the event has since become a cultural icon and a reminder of the North American video game crash of 1983; it was the end result of a disastrous fiscal year which saw Atari, Inc. sold off.