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Title: N.M. city approves Atari excavation
Post by: ChrisSmolinski on May 31, 2013, 2220 UTC

ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (KRQE) - 1982 brought a video game so bad it's credited with nearly taking down the entire industry.

The Atari 2600 version of the hit movie E.T. was so unplayable, millions of copies went unsold with millions more returned.

Legend has it Atari needed to dump the extra merchandise and extra consoles as the industry crashed in 1983.

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On Tuesday the Alamogordo City Commission approved a deal with Canada-based film production and entertainment company Fuel Industries to excavate the Atari dump site and create a documentary surrounding the Alamogordo landfill legend.

Full article:
http://www.kxan.com/dpps/news/national/nm-city-approves-atari-excavation-lin_6204406 (http://www.kxan.com/dpps/news/national/nm-city-approves-atari-excavation-lin_6204406)

Hey Fansome - maybe if they dig up the Atari cartridges, they can make room for all the QNX stuff that needs to be buried.

Title: Re: N.M. city approves Atari excavation
Post by: cmradio on May 31, 2013, 2347 UTC

I had ET for my 2600 and it was quite playable ???

Peace!

Title: Re: N.M. city approves Atari excavation
Post by: Cesium on June 01, 2013, 0000 UTC

Quote from: cmradio on May 31, 2013, 2347 UTC

I had ET for my 2600 and it was quite playable ???

Peace!

I 2nd this.  If you read and understand the instruction manual it's quite good.  Guess kids in 1982 didn't read... Oh yeah I was an 80's kid and I didn't read.   

Title: Re: N.M. city approves Atari excavation
Post by: Fansome on June 01, 2013, 0002 UTC

Interesting; that's a rumor that I had not heard back when I was in the business. Mattel Electronics was just as bad; they were run by marketers, and insisted on some sort of big-name tie-in for all of their games. NFL Football, NHL Soccer, ABPA Backgammon, and so on. They would put tremendous pressure on the engineers to get the game out the door to try to take advantage of any publicity being mounted by outside forces. Seems to me they took a bath on "Battlestar Galactica" games for that reason.

Title: Re: N.M. city approves Atari excavation
Post by: cmradio on June 03, 2013, 0504 UTC

Games were fun back then. One game entertained all the family. There wasn't all this blood-and-guts bullshit and MMORPG crap. It was what it was - a game. Not a competition.

/end 60's baby rant ;)

Title: Re: N.M. city approves Atari excavation
Post by: RedMercuryLabs on June 04, 2013, 1428 UTC

I ponder the thought of someone finding a long lost Yoshi Transmitter out there... 8)

(http://thetruthbehindthescenes.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/hangar-18.jpg)

Title: Re: N.M. city approves Atari excavation
Post by: cmradio on June 04, 2013, 1922 UTC

We're going to take all the good ones ;D

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2013/06/04/technology-bad-atari-games-fuel.html