Awesome Photos From The Atari Landfill

E.T. wasn’t the only thing excavators found in the Atari landfill this weekend.

Though the legend was always that Atari buried millions of copies of that critically-panned game, the historical garbage dump is actually filled with all sorts of Atari games and products. And while digging in Alamogordo, New Mexico over the weekend, a construction crew uncovered tons of hardware and games ranging from Defender to Missile Command.

Here are some great high-resolution photos from the dig, shot by ReadWrite’s Taylor Hatmaker. Take a look at what they found: