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I agree that it's an interesting story. Kind of an electronic time capsule. I just remember reading about the console gaming crash in Time magazine in 1984 or so about all this junk that Atari buried "in the desert" and it was as much about the crash as it was about the new technology being so disposable and where would we put it all. There was much more in the dump than just video game cartridges. By volume and weight Atari dumped more than just game cartridges though. They dumped computers, dot matrix printers even type writers and other mundane office equipment. The console gaming crash forced Atari to close at least one large office and they dumped everything that couldn't be used in another office or sold. They actually did cap the whole thing off with cement.

Anyway, I wasn't suggesting that it wasn't interesting enough to post or that people much younger than I should have had first hand knowledge of the burial. I just think the whole rumor thing was something that was made up by the current media in order for them to have a snappy headline. But it was well documented at the time. The media should know better and they should know that they don't have to make up a rumor in order to make it interesting. It's already interesting.