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Excavated Atari 2600 cartridges now up for sale on eBay

The city of Alamogordo, New Mexico has placed a number of copies of the Atari 2600’s E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial up on eBay for purchase.

As you might expect, those cartridges, alongside other titles like Asteroids and Defender, were dug up from a landfill as part of Xbox’s Atari: Game Over documentary.

Initial bids of $50 for cartridges have skyrocketed to $405 at the time of writing.

The city has about 1,500 cartridges from the excavation, and allocated some for sale, and others to travel as part of an Atari exhibition.

Anyone planning on a purchase?

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