Around 18 months on from the discovery of Atari 2600 copies of the infamous E.T. The Extra Terrestrial in the Alamogordo, New Mexico landfill it’s been revealed how much money has been made via sales of items unearthed during the dig. The Alamogordo Daily News (via Gamasutra) reports that proceeds from the Atari dig sale on eBay came to USD $107,930.15.
“There’s 297 we’re still holding in an archive that we’ll sell at a later date when we decide what to do with them,” Joe Lewandowski of the Tularosa Basin Historical Society told the paper. “I might sell those if a second movie comes out but for now we’re just holding them. The film company got 100 games, 23 went to museums and we had 881 that we actually sold. They were sold in 45 states and 14 countries.”
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“There’s 297 we’re still holding in an archive that we’ll sell at a later date when we decide what to do with them,” Joe Lewandowski of the Tularosa Basin Historical Society told the paper. “I might sell those if a second movie comes out but for now we’re just holding them. The film company got 100 games, 23 went to museums and we had 881 that we actually sold. They were sold in 45 states and 14 countries.”
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