maniac-kun
Member
Oh got they opened it. The game industry will crumble now!
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ET found in landfill [Xbox troll = ban]
- Thread starter Wario64
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ricardo_sousa11
Member
From the OP:
https://twitter.com/kobunheat/status/460158489998815233/photo/1
"There is so much stuff they've pulled up. This is all just atari 2600 games."
Seriously, are you not even willing to read the very first post of this thread?
Lies...there is a tire !
Fox_Mulder
Rockefellers. Skull and Bones. Microsoft. Al Qaeda. A Cabal of Bankers. The melting point of steel. What do these things have in common? Wake up sheeple, the landfill wasn't even REAL!
I'm only skeptical. Nothing more, nothing less.
Can i have the right to be skeptical?
The Curse of E.T.'s Tomb is going to destroy us all.
PopcornMegaphone
Banned
Microsoft is making a film out of the excavation for Xbox Live.
Atari really aren't Atari anymore. I am sure there will be people who worked for Atari in the 80s interviewed in the documentary.
The Atari of today is so far removed from the Atari of 1983, they pretty much aren't even the same company(aside from the name), so I don't see any real reason why they should.
Altered Juice
Member
lol
Well if this is true then it's very interesting and kinda cool. Personally I think they sold have left it alone. What's the point of this really?
I don't like how this is probably going to be part of Xbox one original programming. It's an interesting part of gaming that should be available to everyone.
Microsoft being behind this doesn't sit well with me for some reason. Not trying to gather a conspiracy but just doesn't sit right with me .
I don't like how this is probably going to be part of Xbox one original programming. It's an interesting part of gaming that should be available to everyone.
Microsoft being behind this doesn't sit well with me for some reason. Not trying to gather a conspiracy but just doesn't sit right with me .
Well yeah i meant someone from Atari at the time.
Half the people in this thread thought it was a myth. It's pretty obvious why they did it. There's ample evidence that the burial took place, witnesses to the burial and witnesses to the excavation. It makes no sense for this to be a hoax.
They really can't do no right no matter what they do can they with some people?, jesus.
PopcornMegaphone
Banned
This is an awesome story in video history. Stop being a fanboy.
I really like what they did with the PC and making an os that I can download steam from.
alfredofroylan
Member
Atari released a really shitty game as a movie tie-in. Didn't sell, they threw it in the dumpster.
What's so interesting about it? I really don't see the appeal...
Fanboy? I own a Wii u, ps4, and Xbox one.
If Sony did this it wouldn't sit well either. Somehow I think it would be a conflict of interest. I said i think the story is cool and interesting.
I just hope it's not exclusive Xbox one content and they put the documentary on Netflix or something so anyone could watch it.
It's videogame history, albeit US-centric.
Any story of a company creating and dominating an industry, to then crashing and burning is interesting. ET is just the symbolic bookend to that period, the documentary is about Atari in general.
PopcornMegaphone
Banned
Everyone? Netflix is a paywall too.
I'm glad they did it. Nobody else was willing or able to.
Cthulhu_Steev
Member
Howard Scott Warshaw was there, he's in one of the pictures, I don't know whether he ever commented on the subject though. He did write one of the better columns in retro GamesTM though, fascinating stories about his days at Atari.
Even people who don't follow videogames may have heard the 'myth' of the ET game crashing so hard that they dumped them in landfills. It's a great image as well as a symbolic one in gaming history, as mentioned by the above poster. And not a myth but a true story, as we've seen now.
It would be on Youtube within a day even if it was exclusive content. There is no reason to have yet another go at Microsoft for something when they have investigated a real modern gaming legend and solved it and we are going to see it first hand.
if they dont want new theories/urban myths to begin, they should better show some close ups of a lot of boxes^^
I wrote anyone, not everyone. A 7.99 paywall is much more accessible than 499.99.
EmCeeGramr
Member
It's more of a defining moment of the North American crash in 83, when nobody was buying or making games like they were before and even the ones that did sell (ET and Pac-Man 2600 sold well initially) had sky high expectations that they could never meet.
ET wasn't just a shitty movie tie-in in the sense you're thinking of, it was a major release from a company that seemed unstoppable until recently before. And it was an embarrassing disaster that they had to bury in the trash along with a lot of other unsold inventory.
Given that this is a documentary about Atari's history, it's a notable incident that can be used to illustrate what was happening as it all came crashing down.
PopcornMegaphone
Banned
Where's that true cost gif where they include the TV and house?
I'm sure this will be available for 360 owners as well.
Cthulhu_Steev
Member
They've already pulled up tax returns from that date, I'm sure there are newspapers from 1983 in there as well. It's brilliant, it's not just the cartridges, it's a time capsule of an era that I adored, and still adore.
America was, literally, an undiscovered country to me at that time as a 12 year old. I mean, I flipped (and still do) when they went into that amazing castle arcade on an episode of CHiPs. I love this shit.
It's not exclusive to Xbox consoles, AFAIK. It's exclusive to the Xbox platform. So you can watch it at https://video.xbox.com. No more locked down than Netflix, really.
Hawk269
Member
There is a pic in the beginning of the thread that shows a master box with 6 copies of the game inside of it. I am a member of older Gaf here and I worked retail back in the day and that box is how 2600 games came in. On big titles we would get a larger box of 24 selling units, each larger box contained 4 smaller ones of 6 games per box. The one photo where it looks like the top of the pack of 6 is opened and it showing the games is how these games came packed back in the day.
Can't believe people still don't believe this. It did happen.
Can't believe people still don't believe this. It did happen.
Look it was a myth and apparently it's been proven to be true.
We haven't seen the documentary yet.
So yes people will be skeptable.
Hopefully it will all be settled. It's cool, fun , a bit pointless imo cause its more fun as a myth, but it's entertainment and I plan to watch it.
We haven't seen the documentary yet.
So yes people will be skeptable.
Hopefully it will all be settled. It's cool, fun , a bit pointless imo cause its more fun as a myth, but it's entertainment and I plan to watch it.
MightyHedgehog
Member
It's a part of their Atari documentary.
It probably will be, but it's been written that it is planned for initial availability for both Xbox platforms and will likely be available on other services after a time. MS is funding it, after all.
Why? MS is the only American console maker, just as Atari once was. I never once read that Ninty or Sony cared about or praised Atari, but influential people at Xbox have, like J Allard.
If they are clever, they won't do that - why not let the discussion whether this is staged or not just linger on and keep the public interest awake until the documentary releases? Kinda the same thing as with a striptease - you don't show everything in the beginning, in order to stimulate the imagination and keep the interest at peak level
Stuggernaut
Grandma's Chippy
Cool story, but I hate seeing all that crap buried under ground. Landfills bug me ;P
Cthulhu_Steev
Member
It was more than a myth, we knew something happened but never knew the truth of it (unless you're one of those people who Scooby-Doo-knew-it-was-true all along) it was a compelling mystery as much as a myth. I think even the limited evidence of this thread is enough to nail that truth, seeing as most of us knew the assumed details and it mostly confirms them.
Pretty much everything we've ever done is buried under our feet (except for that US vs Russian firefight on the Moon that time, and that supergroup we fired into the Sun)
thechristoph
Sir!
Be skeptical, but don't be downright ignorant. There are photos of buckets full of crushed cartridges. Piles and piles of crushed, new-in-box games.
Correctomundo
Member
Not in the face of evidence. The facts demonstrate a reality. You're not accepting the nature of the reality. That isn't skepticism. It's delusion.
No longer a myth
Is that guy a conehead?
MasterOfPastures
Banned
Let me get a swing at that equine cadaver and say, no. Not when the evidence is right in front of you. Then you're just being willfully ignorant and stupid.
There was a conehead photoshop in this thread, can't find it right now.
Edit:
Come on guys, don't be disrespectful... He's a Conehead.
But I'm still missing a Zak McKracken alien shop
AkelisRain
Member
Think all the materials will be recycled somehow?
antiquegamer
Member
They sponsor the documentary ... there are plenty of show exclusive to certain subscription. Should Netflix put all their show out on Hulu, Amazon etc because you don't want to subscribe to it? I am not sure what you are getting at, it still read like you are mad because it's Microsoft that finance the documentary.
Bigfroth
Member
Howard Scott Warshaw. He's the guy that programmed E.T.
Everybody remembers him for E.T, but he is also the designer of Yar's Revenge.
antiquegamer
Member
Yar's Revenge was probably my favorite game of that era next to Space Demon.