Topic - Alamogordo

Alamogordo is the county seat and economic center of Otero County in south-central New Mexico, United States. A city in the Tularosa Basin of the Chihuahuan desert, it is bordered on the east by the Sacramento Mountains. It is the city nearest to Holloman Air Force Base. The population was 30,403 as of the 2010 census. Alamogordo is known for its connection with the Trinity test, the first explosion of an atomic bomb, and also for the Atari video game burial of 1983. - Source: Wikipedia

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Crews begin digging at the old Alamogordo, N.M., landfill on Friday April 25, 2014, to search for copies of the Atari game &quot;E.T. The Extraterrestrial&quot; purportedly buried there in the 1980s. The game is considered among gamers to be one of the worst ever and is believed to have contributed to the demise of Atari. (AP Photo/Alamogordo Daily News, John Bear)

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This undated photo provided in 2007 by the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, N.Y. shows an Atari video game system. A group of filmmakers plans to dig up a concrete-covered landfill in the New Mexico desert on Saturday, April 26, 2014 to search for a large cache of discarded copies of &quot;E.T. The Extraterrestrial&quot; game. (AP Photo/Strong National Museum of Play)

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