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Scott Weinberg ‏@scottEweinberg
My generation buried those E.T. Atari cartridges for a reason. You're awakening something not even Lovecraft could imagine.
Hah!
Scott Weinberg ‏@scottEweinberg
My generation buried those E.T. Atari cartridges for a reason. You're awakening something not even Lovecraft could imagine.
Can i have the right to be skeptical?
I'm only skeptical. Nothing more, nothing less.
Can i have the right to be skeptical?
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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!
Never let it be said we denied any man his God-given right to be a fool.
Never let it be said we denied any man his God-given right to be a fool.
Never let it be said we denied any man his God-given right to be a fool.
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 .
Oh man. It is a pity he didn't found it first for his movie.
Adventure was a great game and it also started my love for RPG's. Back in those days it was a refreshing change to most games that had a static image and just waves upon waves of enemies, which was still great back then, but when Adventure came out it was really different.
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.
Well, it's hovering, isn't it?
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.
Well, it's hovering, isn't it?
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 exactly how many old games did they uncover? None of the photos or descriptions really seem to convey the size or scale of the find.
There is so much contradiction in this postWell 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 .
After giving the thread a good full onceover, I'm confused how this became an urban legend at all. I don't understand how something with so much documentation retroactively becomes reported as a rumor for decades.
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 .
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?
Well played.
Dunno, I always believed it was true, and people on most of the sites I went to believed it too.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.
I'm really confused, GAF.
Was the rumour "Atari buried some games in the New Mexico desert" (for which there is documented evidence) or that "Atari buried 1,000,000+ (crushed?) copies of ET because they couldn't sell it" (the rumour as I understand it)?
It seems there is evidence for the former, and not yet the latter, but people who are skeptical are being called out. The idea that Atari buried miscellaneous excess stock in a landfill is much, much less interesting than the idea that they buried millions of copies of a bad game. I'm not seeing any myth proving here.
Analogy-wise, it would be like draining the Loch Ness and finding that the monster is a slightly larger than normal seal. "How did it get there? Myth confirmed!". No. No it bloody well isn't. It isn't the Loch Ness Monster, according to descriptions.
^^^^ :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!
I'm only skeptical. Nothing more, nothing less.
Can i have the right to be skeptical?
Have Atari commented on this?
Btw if they make any of these available for purchase, I'm in.
I'm only skeptical. Nothing more, nothing less.
Can i have the right to be skeptical?
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 1993. Frame one and put it up on your wall.
Major sure knows how to pull off a hard hat.
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.
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.
They secured the rights to ET and made far too many copies of a terrible game.The Atari era was way before my time, but why did they bury it? I'm aware of the video game crash, but why not other possible means of disposal? Burying it, only to be found 30 years later, sounds so... dramatic and at the same time poetic.
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
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.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.
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.
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.
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.
The Atari era was way before my time, but why did they bury it? I'm aware of the video game crash, but why not other possible means of disposal? Burying it, only to be found 30 years later, sounds so... dramatic and at the same time poetic.