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Construction workers unearth Atari games in New Mexico desert

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http://www.theverge.com/2014/4/26/5...unearth-legendary-cache-of-atari-games-in-new

According to urban legend, a massive stockpile of Atari gear — including truckloads of the notoriously awful game E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial — has laid buried in a New Mexico landfill for over thirty years. Today, that story is no longer a myth. Construction crews have uncovered copies of the Atari 2600 game at a landfill deep in the New Mexico desert, near the city of Alamogordo.
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"Construction crews".

People hired specifically to dig up the landfill and looked for the copies of Atari games for a documentary for Xbox TV.
 
Familiar with the urban legend, I started reading stories about the then-upcoming dig a few days ago. They started digging and really had not much hope that they would find them. Basically, they were only authorized to dig in one spot of the HUGE landfill and could only hope to hit paydirt. Otherwise, it would continue to be an urban legend forever.
 
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