Documentary filmmakers digging in a New Mexico landfill on Saturday unearthed hundreds of "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" cartridges, considered by some the worst video game ever made and blamed for contributing to the downfall of the video game industry in the 1980s.
Some gamers speculate that thousands or even millions of the unwanted cartridges made by Atari were buried in a landfill in Alamogordo, about 200 miles southeast of Albuquerque.
That's amazing. I honestly thought that was a complete fabrication for years.
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That's amazing. I honestly thought that was a complete fabrication for years.
I love that they found them, boxes and all it looks like. I guess I hadn't put much thought into whether it was "true" or not, I just liked the story of "atari buries 1,000's of unsold cartridges in the desert!" story.
Gotta wonder if they manage to sell em now given the history?
100's of copies? Wasn't the myth like 10's or 100's of 1000's of copies that were dumped? There were more games dumped then Ataris made or something like that.
Edit: Read a different article then one linked.
Still a publicity stunt by Microsoft and who knos why. And who would pay $5 on e bay for this game?
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"We do expect to work through some inventory in Q4," said Hood, referring in this case to the period between April 1 - June 30, 2014. She also referred to "channel inventory drawdown for Xbox consoles," implying that manufacturing of Xbox consoles will slow or stop, to allow retailers time to work through existing inventory.
I remember this game....probably should just rebury it.
I put hours into that game and still have no clue what the point of it was. I just went around looking for the Reese Pieces until I got bored and changed it to Star Raiders.
The game was terrible. We would play it and try to figure out what to do. It was very inconsistent - sometimes you can levitate out of that pit and other times you couldn't, you would just turn it off and go back to gi joe or other toys.
I remember playing this once as a kid. I'm pretty sure I spent 20 mins trying to get out of that pit. Got fed up, tossed the game aside and sunk my time into Pitfall instead. Stupid E.T. game.
this game sucked donkey, but I still got further in it than I did Raiders of the Lost Ark for Atari. that's the game that should be forever sealed in a tomb of poisonous snakes and damnation.
Defintely a bad game, but there were worse. I think the problem was expectations were so big for it and Atari had sunk so much into it. Promotions etc. I read a story once that said they really only started coding on the game three weeks before launch.
At least ET looked good as a sprite. Though what he looked like dead always confused me.
this game sucked donkey, but I still got further in it than I did Raiders of the Lost Ark for Atari. that's the game that should be forever sealed in a tomb of poisonous snakes and damnation.
That was the worst game ever. How do you get the damn shovel. The other one that was impossible was the four games that came with a comic book that did nothing but flash fancy colours on the screen. I can't remember what they were called.
My claim to Atari fame though is a perfect score on Pitfall 2.
The other one that was impossible was the four games that came with a comic book that did nothing but flash fancy colours on the screen. I can't remember what they were called.
that was Swordquest. I really liked the seizure inducing light show every time you moved from room to room, but all the mini games were terrible and there's no way my toddler self was figuring any of that crap out. there were even real prizes for people that could finish the game and unlock the secret messages in the comic book or something.
how anyone played any of these "quest" Atari games for more than 2 minutes without access to an internet walkthrough still boggles my mind. I will never complain about today's games after growing up in that environment.
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