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In which U.S. state did Atari bury millions of unsold game cartridges in a landfill in 1983?
Answer
New Mexico
Atari trucked excess inventory, including unsold E.T. cartridges, to a landfill near Alamogordo, New Mexico, where it was crushed and buried in September 1983.
💡 Did you know?
Atari buried millions of unsold E.T. cartridges in a New Mexico landfill in 1983, contributing directly to the video game industry's near-total collapse that year.
Other options people guess
- Arizona
- Nevada
- Texas
Topics
- video-games
- 1980s
- atari
- console-history
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