Video Game Cartridge, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
date: label: date made
content: 1982
name: label: maker
content: Atari, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: An Atari 2600 (also known as VCS) cartridge with the game "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial." This cartridge was excavated from the landfill at Alamagordo, New Mexico on April 26, 2014. Atari buried millions of cartridges in 1983 in order to remove inventory from their warehouse in El Paso, Texas. Due to scant and obscure written records as well as the coincidence of being buried near where Roswell occurred, the burial became in the public consciousness a urban legend, but the excavation revealed many cartridges which was then collected. The commercial flop of E.T. was one of the factors that led to a video game crash that started in 1982-1985.
label: Description
content: A paper is attached to the game with a serial number from the City of Alamagordo as a certification that it came from the excavation. The serial number is COA / 08073.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Fuel Entertainment
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2014.0190.01
label: serial number
content: COA / 08073
label: catalog number
content: 2014.0190.01
label: accession number
content: 2014.0190
objectType: label: Object Name
content: video game cartridge
label: Object Name
content: cartridge, game
label: Object Type
content: Video Game
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: cartridge: 4 3/8 in x 3 1/2 in x 1 in; 11.1125 cm x 8.89 cm x 2.54 cm