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" Atari&amp;#039;s recently unearthed ET: The Extra-Terrestrial cartridges will be put up for sale, it has been confirmed. 700 copies of the game will be appraised, certified and sold by the Alamogordo City Commission, according to Polygon.  &amp;quot;We have been working with the space museum for curation, both for displaying and selling the games; they are now artifacts,&amp;quot; explained Alamogordo mayor Susie Galea.  &amp;quot;The City Commission acted on Tuesday to give 100 of the games to (documentary production companies) Lightbox and Fuel Entertainment. There are 700 that we can sell.&amp;quot; While the process of selling the games is yet to be decided, some copies will be distributed to local museums. With more than 700,000 games remaining buried, Galea hopes the landfill site will become a tourist attraction. Proceeds from game sales could even be used to create a sign.  Atari paid millions to acquire the rights to make a game based on the Steven Spielberg blockbuster, but the subsequent product was mauled by critics. Its failure is seen as one of the contributing factors in the collapse of home console gaming a year later, which lasted until the launch of the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1985. The games were dug up as part of a documentary directed by Zak Penn for Xbox. Watch footage from the game below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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