So for years, it had been a joke/rumor that unshipped copies of ET on Atari (which was considered woefully bad) were actually thrown in landfill as it was the only way to get rid of them. Many saw this as just a rumor and a funny one, but most people assumed the game cartridges were simply reused for newer games.
To know more, you can read about it on Wikipedia.
But the rumored buried copies have been found and are selling on eBay for hundreds and even thousands, racking up 108k+ so far.
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ALAMOGORDO, N.M. - A cache of ET Atari game cartridges dug up in a New Mexico landfill last year has generated more than $100,000 in sales in the last several months.
The Alamogordo Daily News reports that an estimated 850 games that sold on eBay has brought in close to $108,000.
Joe Lewandowski, a consultant for the film companies that documented the dig to retrieve the games, announced the figure at an Alamogordo City Commission meeting earlier this week.
About $26,000 will go toward expenses such as shipping fees.
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http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/atari...ebay-1.2539099
Damn, lets throw SimCity 2013 and whatever other bad games that have launched recently in landfill, and sell them in 2030.