The Atari video game burial Placing was a mass burial Placing of unsold Commerce_sell video game cartridges , consoles , and computers in a New Mexico landfill site , undertaken Action by American video game and home computer company Atari , Inc. in 1983 .

The Atari video game burial Placing was a mass burial Placing of unsold Commerce_sell video game cartridges , consoles , and computers in a New Mexico landfill site , undertaken Action by American video game and home computer company Atari , Inc. in 1983 .

the Extra-Terrestrial '' , one of the biggest commercial failures in video gaming and often cited as one of , if not , the worst video game ever released Publishing , along with the Atari 2600 port of `` Pac-Man '' , which was commercially successful but critically maligned Judgment_communication .

In either case the event Placing had become Becoming a cultural icon and a reminder of the North American video game crash Catastrophe of 1983 ; it was the end result of a disastrous fiscal year which saw Atari , Inc. sold Commerce_sell off by its parent company Warner Communications .

were disposed Removing of in the landfill , Atari officials later verified Check the numbers to be around 700,000 cartridges of various titles , including `` E.T . ''