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New Mexico city working on who gets Atari games

By Washington Examiner
Published May 30, 2014 9:02pm ET
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New Mexico city working on who gets Atari games
FILE - In this April 26, 2014 file photo,left, and Raul Ruiz pose for a photograph with a cartridge they found buried in a landfill in Alamogordo, N.M. Producers of a documentary dug in an southeastern New Mexico landfill in search of millions of cartridges of the Atari 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial' game that has been called the worst game in the history of video gaming and were buried there in 1983. Officials in Alamogordo, are working on a plan under which film companies, museums and the public could get Atari video games that were dug up from the old landfill last month. (AP Photo/Juan Carlos Llorca) | Juan Carlos Llorca

ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (AP) — Officials in southeastern New Mexico began work on a plan this week to divide a cache of Atari video games dug up from an old landfill last month.

Joe Lewandowski, a consultant for the film companies that documented the dig, issued a draft of a distribution plan to Alamogordo city officials on Tuesday.

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