Want to own a piece of gaming history? No, I'm not referring to any aged console you can pick up at a suburban thrift store, I'm talking about a company's secret buried failures. Soon 700 of the 1,300 exhumed E.T.: The Extraterrestrial video game tie-ins recovered during Microsoft's joint effort in filming a documentary on the subject will put up for sale. These Atari cartridges will be appraised, certified and put up for sale at the New Mexico Museum of Space History.
“We have been working with the space museum for curating, both for displaying and selling the games; they are now artifacts,” says Alamogordo mayor Susie Galea.
No word on how much the games will sell yet. Though 700 cartridges are only a small fraction of games still buried, chances are no one will be going back for more. The games were found nearly 30 feet below the surface and the excavation site has already been refilled.
Mayor Galea hopes to create an attraction at the site of the Alamogordo landfill which will be made even more famous when a Microsoft exclusive documentary premiers later this year on the destruction and eventual recovery of the games.
