TheBaronOfNA
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This.
I'm not sure I believe this story at all.
Look above.
This.
I'm not sure I believe this story at all.
How would someone even go about finding the carts?! The landfill would be huge!
E.T. was an Atari game that was the bomba to end all bombas.
They had so many unsold cartridges that they buried them in a landfill in Arizona.
I imagine these would fetch a lot on Ebay.
But would Atari still own them? Or is it finders keepers?
Was it said anywhere that they just couldn't give away the game for free?
It was that bad?
We could come in between (sort of) and it's just several dozen or a few hundred. There's definitely a bunch of Atari 2600 games thrown there at a minimum anyway.
Why would this have any impact on a general gaming crash? Surely it'd just be something that would hasten Atari's downfall, but why the rest of gaming?
It was a pretty cool day out there. I mean as cool as a day can be un an old landfill. The one I am holding in the photo was the very first one they found. There area a TON more down there and the story is developing on exactly how many.
Oh and nice 'shop of my head.
according to one of the links posted earlier it is usually finders keepers in NM (But this landfill has a guard) but the filmmakers made a deal w/ the town where the filmmakers get to keep 250 or 10% of the cartridges (whichever is greater) in exchange for the excavation/filming rights. I guess the town gets the rest
Look above.
That kid's face pretty much sums up this game.
There is some serious potential in this pictureMajor sure knows how to pull off a hard hat.
This is some Indiana Jones shit
There ya go. You have Larry's blessing. Hope you guys out this up on YouTube.It was a pretty cool day out there. I mean as cool as a day can be un an old landfill. The one I am holding in the photo was the very first one they found. There area a TON more down there and the story is developing on exactly how many.
Oh and nice 'shop of my head.
See, this is the part people don't understand. The game was not a bomba, it sold over 2million copies and was the consoles biggest selling title.
The problem was Atari convinced retailers it would continue to sell at that same high volume and it didn't. The extra copies that were made and went unsold are the ones that eventually got buried.
Cool. any ideas on when its going to air?
It's a symbol of an era where the videogame industry didn't really understand how to work properly yet.the entire business model was fucked up,and that it's one of the main reasons of the 1983 crashWhy would this have any impact on a general gaming crash? Surely it'd just be something that would hasten Atari's downfall, but why the rest of gaming?
Wonder if they found any copies of the Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark 2600 game.
Can someone explain to me
1) why is this such a big deal?
2) Is the consensus that this is real (not staged etc)?
That's great news I knew it was true. I still have my copy of E.T and my 2600 both still mint.
Can someone explain to me
1) why is this such a big deal?
2) Is the consensus that this is real?
1) It's one of the most iconic stories in videogame history, I think it's nice to get a fitting ending for it.Can someone explain to me
1) why is this such a big deal?
2) Is the consensus that this is real (not staged etc)?
It was a pretty cool day out there. I mean as cool as a day can be un an old landfill. The one I am holding in the photo was the very first one they found. There area a TON more down there and the story is developing on exactly how many.
Oh and nice 'shop of my head.
I believe lair this year. The excavation is only one part of the movie as I understand it.
It was a pretty cool day out there. I mean as cool as a day can be un an old landfill. The one I am holding in the photo was the very first one they found. There area a TON more down there and the story is developing on exactly how many.
Oh and nice 'shop of my head.
Oh yeah. Did the AVGN movie just got fucked in the ass?
I thought that was Pac-Man on the 2600 that had more carts made than Atari's, not ET?Add to that fact that they produced more copies of the game at launch than 2600s that had been sold at the time, expecting the game to be purchased with 2600s for a long time,
And yeah, AVGN can't be happy about this. :lol He goes and makes a movie about the ET landfill, and this happens before it's even released.
I believe lair this year. The excavation is only one part of the movie as I understand it.
I believe lair this year. The excavation is only one part of the movie as I understand it.
Holy fuck balls.
It was a pretty cool day out there. I mean as cool as a day can be un an old landfill. The one I am holding in the photo was the very first one they found. There area a TON more down there and the story is developing on exactly how many.
Oh and nice 'shop of my head.