On May 28 , 2013 , the Alamogordo City Commission ( in the state of New Mexico ) granted Fuel Industries six months of access to a landfill rumored to contain Atari video games . The purpose is to film a documentary about the burial and to excavate the dump site . On April 26 , 2014 hundreds of Atari E.T . The Extraterrestrial game cartridges were unearthed , mixed in with trash and dirt scooped by a backhoe
rumored to contain Atari video games
Atari video game burial
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