cogadh: Well, he might find the remains of those cartridges.
According to the legend, prior to dumping and burying them, they were crushed into itty bitty pieces.
I quote from that page:
Some other video game manufacturers attempted to rid themselves of excess inventory by selling it at sharply reduced prices, but Atari, stuck with millions of games and consoles that were largely unsellable at any price, sent fourteen truckloads of merchndise from ther plant in El Paso, Texas, to be dumped in a landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico in late September 1983. In order to keep the site from being looted, steamrollers crushed and flattened the games, and a concrete slab was poured over the remains.
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WTF, are they f--king retarded? Just crush the shit? Why not hand it out for free? They went Oh this lost out so bad for us no one can have it free we shall destroy these shitty games!"
Atari lost the very minimal amount of respect I still had for them when I just read they trashed stuff like that. If they dropped the consoles and games on Russia we would've won the cold war because they'd kill each other! Drop them as kinetic bombs even, don't leave them intact! Anything is better than f--king crushing them with a steamroller and wasting the concrete on a slab to prevent them from being stolen. RETARDS!!!.>>>>Jareeted off