Atari games were unearthed in a landfill in Alamogordo, N.M., in April 2014, with sales reaching over $100,000 for the past months. Joe Lewandowski, a consultant for the film companies that decided to document the excavation and sale of the games, made the announcement of the games' sales.
The documentary was called "Atari: Game Over," and served as an investigation to the urban legend that Atari buried thousands of its games in 1983 due to tragic financial losses. Only a small fraction of games allegedly buried were recovered during the excavation period, International Business Times reports.
One of the games retrieved from the unearthing was the game "ET," a game based on Steven Spielberg's movie with the same name. The game made its debut in 1982, but did not live up to its expectations and flopped.
Old junk of that time is now today's treasure, with the games high valued as collector's items, Examiner reports. In total, 881 games were sold, with buyers from 45 states and 14 countries.
Twenty-three of the games made their way to museums, some in the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. and the Deutsches Film Museum in Frankfurt Germany.
There are hundreds more that are not yet up for sale at this time, Lewandowski said.
"There's 297 we're still holding in an archive that we'll sell at a later date when we decide what to do with them. But for now we're just holding them, " he said, according to Fox News.
