The Saga of the Atari Landfill, Part Five: Now You Can Buy This Horrible Crap On eBay

Somehow, this bizarre, pointless-ass story has been going on since April. Good news everyone! Here's a fresh slice.

To get you up to speed, a huge crop of shit-tacular Atari games were unearthed in a New Mexico landfill seven months ago. It was long rumored that such a place existed, but it was finally discovered. This was where thousands of copies of E.T the Extra-terrestrial went to die (because there are some things even Satan doesn't want clogging up his underworld u-bends).

Now they're back with a freaking vengeance, like the toxic waste nobody knew was buried until the neighborhood children started growing extra legs and balls and such. There's been a documentary and everything. The Atari Landfill is a big deal.

But once it's excavated and such, you hit the snag. The snag that got all of these games buried in the first place: they're wank. Nobody wants them. To play them, at any rate. As significant collectors' items, it was only a matter of time before eBay got its greedy talons into this.

The Tularosa Basin Historical Society has started listing some of these ballaches, as Wired reports. Apparently, bidding for a crap-stained copy of E.T is at $400.