PopcornMegaphone
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ET found in landfill [Xbox troll = ban]
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charlequin
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Never let it be said we denied any man his God-given right to be a fool.
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SpartanN92
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Danlord
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Apologies if this was brought up but I did search 'DeLorean' in the search and found no results.
I found this image on ArsTechnica about the dig, and this shows up
Anyone whom recognises the license plate knows this is Ernest Cline's DeLorean, author of "Ready Player One", a nice 80's theme going for the dig. I'm liking the attention this is getting and will be very interested to watch the video(s) when it's published.
I found this image on ArsTechnica about the dig, and this shows up
Anyone whom recognises the license plate knows this is Ernest Cline's DeLorean, author of "Ready Player One", a nice 80's theme going for the dig. I'm liking the attention this is getting and will be very interested to watch the video(s) when it's published.
Ah, so it is interesting to you.
Wait, they shouldn't have done it and there's no point.
But now it's significant enough that it should be available to everyone.
No wait, you just don't like MS. And it's not a conspiracy but it's a conspiracy.
Makes sense.
MrCunningham
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Well, he's not making a documentary,, but instead a fictional take on the Atari 2600 cartridge unburying, so there would have been no first for him. But James did comment on his blog that he wanted to be there but couldn't because it was his daughters first birthday. But if anything, having this so close to his movie will only make the release of the AVGN movie more timely.
charlequin
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Adventure is a deeply under-appreciated title in gaming history. Zork and Akalabeth get their (rightful) due for their influence on adventure and role-playing games, but Adventure was a brilliant (and sneakily influential) title in its own right.
Apologies if this was brought up but I did search 'DeLorean' in the search and found no results.
I found this image on ArsTechnica about the dig, and this shows up
Anyone whom recognises the license plate knows this is Ernest Cline's DeLorean, author of "Ready Player One", a nice 80's theme going for the dig. I'm liking the attention this is getting and will be very interested to watch the video(s) when it's published.
So now that the ET carts are real, does that mean the hoverboards are real too?
Kobun Heat
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Well, it's hovering, isn't it?
I'm still skeptical.
KnockOneOff
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I'm looking forward to watching this alsoApologies if this was brought up but I did search 'DeLorean' in the search and found no results.
I found this image on ArsTechnica about the dig, and this shows up
Anyone whom recognises the license plate knows this is Ernest Cline's DeLorean, author of "Ready Player One", a nice 80's theme going for the dig. I'm liking the attention this is getting and will be very interested to watch the video(s) when it's published.
This is like Christmas of 1989 all over again
(through drowning my sorrows in Game Boy Tetris again sounds like fun)
Salvor.Hardin
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Apologies if this was brought up but I did search 'DeLorean' in the search and found no results.
I found this image on ArsTechnica about the dig, and this shows up
Anyone whom recognises the license plate knows this is Ernest Cline's DeLorean, author of "Ready Player One", a nice 80's theme going for the dig. I'm liking the attention this is getting and will be very interested to watch the video(s) when it's published.
Also interesting to note (for those who missed it) is that the 2600 shown in this picture is none other than Keith Apicary's
Well they are still digging. And is not just dig and fill buckets. NO. It's a dedicated almost archeological dig, they are going to count, separate and catalogue all of it.
Garrett 2U
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There is so much contradiction in this post
Oh, I now see someone already pointed that out
Atari wouldn't comment because it would be a very black mark on their business and a expose their hubris. The landfill was private property. All that speculation with no one willing to corroborate with any solid information. That's the stuff of rumors.
I don't think this is so much about Atari and the physical cartridges, it's all about Nintendo and Europe. Nintendo was petrified of entering the US market because of this very incident and the business surrounding it. It also nearly eliminated cart-based American game programming, which then opened Europe up for gaming studios on the NES and eventually the Atari and Commodore 64 systems - all of which ended up selling ok in the US.
I think people should appreciate this for what it physically is but also for what it represents to us as gamers! Would we have the same games available in the US we have today without this event?
GuitarAtomik
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Lol. I'm amazed they were actually able to find it (and that it's really true). I was certain they'd come up with nothing.
Elfforkusu
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^^^^ :lol at that kid's face. "Good god, this game sucks."
I know he's probably just squinting from the sunlight. Don't confuse me with the facts!
10/10 sarcasm right?!?
Also, thanks to that we ended with the shitty NES design, ROB and every other bullshit nintendo make to differentiate from a video game console.
Well played.
Indeed!
Gamesadict
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Dunno, I always believed it was true, and people on most of the sites I went to believed it too.
I only heard about this in 2007, and considering the consequences this game had on Atari and the industry as a whole (besides having massive stock), it made sense to me that they would actually bury it all in a desert.
I'd always heard it was a million copies, not 250 or so. If that's all there is then this isn't the stuff of legend at all.
Nostremitus
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The condition those carts are in after so many years is kinda scary. Think about all the other synthetic trash we have just sitting below the surface virtually unchanged by time.
Edit: if this has already been said, ignore. I haven't read all 15 pages.
Edit: if this has already been said, ignore. I haven't read all 15 pages.
Megatron
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And sadly even if it wasn't the sunlight, he'd probably be making that face at any Atari or even NES game.
Why would you be skeptical about something like this? Can you actually come up with a good reason why they would fake it?
Wait another day or two. They are still digging looking for it!
I hope trolling Atari is kosher.
MrCunningham
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I could actually see collectors paying decent money to own one of the buried ET cartridges that was responsible for the home console crash in 1983. Frame one and put it up on your wall.
Exploratory
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Lol what do you mean nothing more? You're combating mounds of evidence with nothing. What more could you be?
That's one of the reasons I'm hoping there are a *lot* of them.
Major sure knows how to pull off a hard hat.
Haha, I love the Major but he literally looks like a dickhead. Just needs more purple, the dust mask looking like an ascot is tying thee whole look together.
I had ET as a kid on my Gemini (Atari knockoff). Still don't remember the plot other than making his head go up and down and making noise.
The boxes were in those plastic wraps? And in a desert landfill. If they weren't crushed they should be ok.
And falling down pits, sniffing flowers, floating back up, eating reese's pieces, running from agents, finding bits of phone, and eventually getting a splash screen signifying that you had somehow beaten the game.
Still have no idea on exactly how it all fit together
They secured the rights to ET and made far too many copies of a terrible game.
I don't know that it was terrible, I haven't played it.
Yeah they'd be preserved better in that arid landfill than in a damp basement.
MrCunningham
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And falling down pits, sniffing flowers, floating back up, eating reese's pieces, running from agents, finding bits of phone, and eventually getting a splash screen signifying that you had somehow beaten the game.
Still have no idea on exactly how it all fit together
Watch this walkthrough video from 1982: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLFzzjzcx6k
It was taken from some VHS called "How To Beat Home Video Games" and eplains everything in good detail. ET is no where near as cryptic as Indiana Jones on the Atari 2600, but it's still quite confusing to play if you have no instructions. I was clueless on how to play this game too, when I was a kid.
Dark Octave
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It's impossible to figure out what to do on your own. It's way too cryptic. What a horrible game. Atari did the right thing back in 1982 and put E.T exactly where it belonged.
MrCunningham
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This is the most cryptic game on the 2600 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNsC_HIgkOs along with Sword Quest. ET still sits pretty high up there, though.
Oh I managed to beat it back when I was 5! I just have no idea what sequence of things I did made that happen
Thanks for the vid though. Time to find out what the hell I was doing.
Dreamwriter
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Not impossible at all, I beat the game back in the day with just the basic instruction manual and no extra help. Not a good game, but not all that cryptic. Indiana Jones was a FAR better game, one of the few full adventure games on Atari, and more complicated too. Definitely need the instructions with that game, but in those days people *read* the instructions, they were seen as part of the game, not something optional to skip. People enjoyed the instructions just as much as the rest of the game.
Dreamwriter
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They manufactured more copies than there were systems to run it on (they made the same mistake with Pac Man), and they spent at the time the most amount of money EVER for a single movie license, before the game flopped. At the time, not many people really cared about the damage we were doing to the environment, so the cheapest, easiest solution was to drive them down to a garbage dump and, well, dump them. Atari then went the extra step and crushed them and (reports say) covered them in concrete to keep people from going out and recovering cartridges, and putting them on sale, taking away from Atari's sales.