E.T. Figure at the April 2014 Excavation of the Alamogordo, New Mexico Landfill, Site of the 1983 Atari Video Game Burial

In 1983, rumors circulated: Atari was bankrupt, and was dumping truckloads of games into a New Mexico landfill. Victim to the "Video Game Crash," the company buried 700,000 cartridges in the desert. The story became an obscure pop culture legend -- until "The Atari Tomb" was unearthed in 2014. These images document the world's first video game excavation.