Why bury thousands of video games in New Mexico?

The home video game market boomed in 1983 with revenues of $3.2 billion, but by 1985, it had dropped to $100 million. Atari’s game based on ET the Extra-Terrestrial was a costly failure, resulting in millions of unsold cartridges dumped in a New Mexico landfill. In 2014, a documentary crew excavated the landfill and found […]

What’s “bury the hatchet” mean?

“Bury the hatchet” is an idiom meaning to make peace with an opponent. It originated from Native American tribes burying their weapons as a symbol of truce, and was later used figuratively to describe peace between nations and individuals. “Bury the hatchet” is an English idiom meaning to make peace or settle differences with an […]

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