E.T. cartridges found in infamous Atari landfill
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#2Keith Schofield did a fun little music video about this a few years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Rt_3_bQVJU
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#3I'm both amazed and disappointed that this urban legend turned out to be true. The former because who the would do that in the first place? The latter because who the would do that in the first place?
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#4This guy is making a movie about that game: http://cinemassacre.com/2014/03/23/avgn-movie-timeline-updat...
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#5I'm both amazed and disappointed that this urban legend turned out to be true. The former because who the would do that in the first place? The latter because who the would do that in the first place?
Well this happened back when we really didn't give a shit about the environment AND just before conspicuous consumption more or less defined the 80s.
What I'm dumbfounded by is why they didn't simply give them away? It reminds me of all the stupid YouTube videos of people who wait in line to buy the latest Apple product only to smash it in front of everyone else waiting in line...
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#6I'm both amazed and disappointed that this urban legend turned out to be true. The former because who the would do that in the first place? The latter because who the would do that in the first place?
Having "played"` the game when I was much younger, they were probably trying to save some face and pretend the mess never existed.
` It's not really playable because of horrible collision detection and no mentions of your objective, AFAIR.
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#7I'm both amazed and disappointed that this urban legend turned out to be true. The former because who the would do that in the first place? The latter because who the would do that in the first place?
So that they can properly claim a financial loss? Wasn't the same thing done for the Apple Lisa and GM EV1?
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#8I'm both amazed and disappointed that this urban legend turned out to be true. The former because who the would do that in the first place? The latter because who the would do that in the first place?
Having "played"` the game when I was much younger, they were probably trying to save some face and pretend the mess never existed. ` It's not really playable because of horrible collision detection and no mentions of your objective, AFAIR.
Some guy fixed most of that stuff - http://www.neocomputer.org/projects/et/
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#9I'm both amazed and disappointed that this urban legend turned out to be true. The former because who the would do that in the first place? The latter because who the would do that in the first place?
Well this happened back when we really didn't give a shit about the environment AND just before conspicuous consumption more or less defined the 80s. What I'm dumbfounded by is why they didn't simply give them away? It reminds me of all the stupid YouTube videos of people who wait in line to buy the latest Apple product only to smash it in front of everyone else waiting in line...
It Is a shity game. Allowing people to play it would have been bad for the brand.
Where I work, we(someone) burns the stuff that we can't sell not cause the stuff is bad, it is done to make shore the brand does not get associated with Cheap stuff.
Brand status is important.
(I know it is somewhat insane but it is the way capitalism works)
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well this happened back when we really didn't give a shit about the environment AND just before conspicuous consumption more or less defined the 80s. What I'm dumbfounded by is why they didn't simply give them away? It reminds me of all the stupid YouTube videos of people who wait in line to buy the latest Apple product only to smash it in front of everyone else waiting in line...
It Is a shity game. Allowing people to play it would have been bad for the brand. Where I work, we(someone) burns the stuff that we can't sell not cause the stuff is bad, it is done to make shore the brand does not get associated with Cheap stuff. Brand status is important. (I know it is somewhat insane but it is the way capitalism works)
And yet look where Atari is today..