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- Hard Hat Worn by Raiford Guins during the "Atari Dig" Excavation at the Alamogordo, New Mexico Landfill, 2014 - In 1983, rumors circulated: Atari was bankrupt, and was dumping truckloads of games into a New Mexico landfill. Victim to the "Video Game Crash," the company buried 700,000 cartridges in the desert. "The Atari Tomb" was resurrected from obscurity when it was unearthed in 2014; this clothing was worn by Raiford Guins, historian, during the world's first video game excavation.
- 2014
- Collections - Artifact
Hard Hat Worn by Raiford Guins during the "Atari Dig" Excavation at the Alamogordo, New Mexico Landfill, 2014
In 1983, rumors circulated: Atari was bankrupt, and was dumping truckloads of games into a New Mexico landfill. Victim to the "Video Game Crash," the company buried 700,000 cartridges in the desert. "The Atari Tomb" was resurrected from obscurity when it was unearthed in 2014; this clothing was worn by Raiford Guins, historian, during the world's first video game excavation.