Atari video game burial Wikipedia. The Atari video game burial was a mass burial of unsold video game cartridges, consoles, and computers in a New Mexicolandfill site, undertaken by American video game and home computer company Atari, Inc. Up until 2. 01. 4, the goods buried were rumored to be unsold copies of E. T. the Extra Terrestrial, one of the biggest commercial failures in video gaming and often cited as one of the worst video games ever released, and the Atari 2. Pac Man, which was commercially successful but critically maligned. Since the burial was first reported in the press, there had been doubts as to its veracity and scope, leading to it being frequently dismissed as an urban legend. In either case the event had become a cultural icon and a reminder of the North American video game crash of 1. Atari, Inc. sold off by its parent company Warner Communications. Though it was believed that millions of copies of E. 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In addition, Ataris CEO, Ray Kassar, was later investigated for possible insider trading charges as a result of selling some five thousand shares in Warner less than half an hour before reporting Ataris lower than expected earnings. Kassar was later cleared of any wrongdoing, although he was forced to resign his position the following July. Atari, Inc. Warner Communications the following year. Problem titleseditAtaris tendency to portarcade games for its home console had led to some of its most commercially successful games, including the port of its own coin op Asteroids, and the licensed versions of Taitos Space Invaders and Namcos Pac Man. When the latter game received its official port to the Atari 2. Atari was confident that sales figures would be high, and manufactured 1. Atari 2. 60. 0 consoles. It was believed that the game would be successful enough not only to earn an estimated 5. However, the finished product, released in March 1. Atari with over 5 million unsold cartridgesa problem compounded by the high rate of customers returning the game for refunds. Further to the problems caused by Pac Mans underwhelming sales, Atari also faced great difficulty as a result of its video game adaptation of the film E. T. the Extra Terrestrial. The game, also titled E. T. the Extra Terrestrial, was a result of a deal between Warner Communications and the films director Steven Spielberg. The concept of a video game based on a film, instead of porting an arcade coin op or building on an established franchise, was unheard of at the time. It was later reported that Warner had paid 2. Atari manufactured 5 million cartridges for the game 2 however, upon its release in December 1. Atari still holding onto over half of the game cartridges. The game was critically panned, and is now seen as one of the worst ever made. Billboard magazines Earl Paige reported that the large number of unsold E. T the Extra Terrestrial games, along with an increase in competition, prompted retailers to demand official return programs from video game manufacturers. The failures of these titles were further compounded by Ataris business dealings from 1. Confident in strong sales, the company had told its distributors to place their 1. However, video game sales in 1. Atari. As a result, the company soon found itself in possession of several million essentially useless video game cartridges, which it would be entirely unable to sell. The burial is located in the southern part of the city of Alamogordo, New Mexico. In September 1. 98. Alamogordo Daily News of Alamogordo, New Mexico reported in a series of articles, that between 1. Atari boxes, cartridges, and systems from an Atari storehouse in El Paso, Texas, were crushed and buried at the landfill within the city. It was Ataris first dealings with the landfill, which was chosen because no scavenging was allowed and its garbage was crushed and buried nightly. Ataris stated reason for the burial was that it was changing from Atari 2. Atari 5. 20. 0 games,1. Atari official Bruce Enten stated that Atari was mostly sending broken and returned material to the Alamogordo dump and that it was by and large inoperable stuff. On September 2. 7, 1. UPI reported that people watching the operation said it included cassettes sic of the popular video games E. Ashampoo Magical Defrag 3 Full Crack Pc there. T., Pac Man, Ms. Pac Man, the consoles used to convey the games to television screens and high priced personal computers. The news service Knight Ridder further reported on the looting of the dump on September 2. Atari grave, coming up with cartridges of such games as E. T., Raiders of the Lost Ark, Defender, and Berzerk. On September 2. 8, 1. The New York Times reported on the story of Ataris dumping in New Mexico. An Atari representative confirmed the story for the newspaper, stating that the discarded inventory came from Ataris plant in El Paso, which was being closed and converted to a recycling facility. The reports noted that the site was guarded to prevent reporters and the public from affirming the contents. The Times article never suggested any of the specific game titles being destroyed, but subsequent reports have generally linked the story of the dumping to the well known failure of E. T. 2 Additionally, the headline City to Atari E. T. trash go home in one edition of the Alamogordo News seems to imply some of the cartridges were E. T., but then follows with a humorous interpretation of E. T. meaning Extra territorial and never specifically mentions the game. Starting on September 2. An anonymous workmans stated reason for the concrete was There are dead animals down there. We wouldnt want any children to get hurt digging in the dump. Eventually, the city began to protest the large amount of dumping Atari was doing, with one commissioner stating that the area did not want to become an industrial waste dump for El Paso. The local manager ordered the dumping to be ended shortly afterwards. Due to Ataris unpopular dumping, Alamogordo later passed an Emergency Management Act and created the Emergency Management Task Force to limit the future flexibility of the garbage contractor to secure outside business for the landfill for monetary purposes. Alamogordos then mayor, Henry Pacelli, commented that, We do not want to see something like this happen again. Cultural symbolism and speculationeditAll of these factors have led to wide speculation that most of the 3. E. T. the Extra Terrestrial ultimately wound up in this landfill, crushed and encased in concrete. It has also been reported that prototypes for the proposed Atari Mindlink controller system were disposed of at the site,2. Atari Museum owner Curt Vendel actually currently owns the Mindlink prototypes.