It seems one man’s trash really is another man’s treasure.
Atari cartridges pulled from a landfill site in Alamogordo, New Mexico earlier this year are doing great business on auction site eBay. The City of Alamogordo has already made $37,000 selling just 100 of the unearthed games, and it has another 700 still to auction off. The games are in very poor condition, as you’d expect after 30 years spent underground, but it hasn’t stopped one copy of E.T. The Extra Terrestrial, in its original box, selling for $1,537.
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