a Year ago near the American town of Alamogordo was excavated burial of unsold cartridges and game consoles Atari, organized in 1983. Subsequently some of the cartridges were put up for sale and brought in a total of 107 thousand dollars, according to Engadget. The most expensive lot of the auction was a cartridge game E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial, which went for 1535 dollars.

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a Year ago near the American town of Alamogordo was excavated burial of unsold cartridges and game consoles Atari, organized in 1983. Subsequently some of the cartridges were put up for sale and brought in a total of 107 thousand dollars, according to Engadget. The most expensive lot of the auction was a cartridge game E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial, which went for 1535 dollars.

Surprisingly, some time ago this game has recognized the most disastrous in the history of the industry and often included in lists of the worst. This is understandable, because in other case hundreds of thousands of cartridges it would not have ended up in landfills. Excavations of burial began in 2013 and in early 2014 were found surviving cartridges.

this year on Ebay was sold 881 cartridge with 60 various games. On the sale of their part of the city has earned 65 thousand dollars. At the town meeting initiator excavations asked local authorities to spend the money wisely, not on patching holes in the road or sewer line.

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