Atari Game Donated to UND
Vintage Video Games Donated
UND’s Department of Special Collections has an unusual addition.
The Centipede game for the Atari 2600 was among hundreds of games recovered at the city landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico, last spring.
A team of filmmakers investigated a decades-old urban legend about Atari secretly dumping “E.T.” game cartridges.
The game had the reputation of being the worst ever.
UND researchers Bill Caraher and Bret Weber took part in the excavation.
Caraher says the game represents “our very recent past,” and he notes that even the Smithsonian has one of the games from the Atari dig.
