800 excavated Atari cartridges will be auctioned off [Eurogamer.net]

[DP ServBot]

Back in April Microsoft and media company Fuel excavated some 1300 unwanted Atari video game cartridges from a landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Now, the Alamogordo City Council has decided to auction off 800 of these historical games.
As reported by Reuters, the Alamogordo City Council voted seven-to-zero in favour of auctioning the discarded cartridges, which are currently being held by the Tularosa Basin Historical Society and stored at the New Mexico Museum of Space History in Alamogordo.
We should start seeing auctions for the carts beginning in about two weeks on eBay and the council's website.
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[old_skoolin_jim]

Back in April Microsoft and media company Fuel excavated some 1300 unwanted Atari video game cartridges from a landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Now, the Alamogordo City Council has decided to auction off 800 of these historical games.
As reported by Reuters, the Alamogordo City Council voted seven-to-zero in favour of auctioning the discarded cartridges, which are currently being held by the Tularosa Basin Historical Society and stored at the New Mexico Museum of Space History in Alamogordo.
We should start seeing auctions for the carts beginning in about two weeks on eBay and the council's website.
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Ha ha ha, I can see the eBay and Craigslist ads now:

"FS: RARE ATARI 2600 E.T. CARTRIDGE - $100"

Anyone who buys these (ok, for more than a few dollars at least)— regardless of alleged historical significance— needs to do some serious self-evaluation.

[ProjectCamaro]

I just don't get it.

Try explaining to someone why you paid so much for a crappy game that no one wanted.

"You see it spent many years buried in the ground because no matter how hard Atari tried everyone knew the game was absolute crap. And that's why I spent 20 times its worth to own a cartrige that cannot be played as it was ruined being in te dirt all those years."

[Greg2600]

Which was found in a LANDFILL!!!!

[T2KFreeker]

I mean, wow, what to say? As for saying the games don't work, from what I heard, many of them actually do fire right up when popped into a 2600, so who knows? Still wont be worth the price they sell for though because people will bid them up stupid like.