I'm going to have to dig a hole

WatchTower · 11 May 2006 at 20:17

I've read about Atari dumping aload of games in a landfill years ago and these guys go and find em. That is if this is real.

Atari Games

MouseMat2004 · 11 May 2006 at 20:21

Maybe there will be one with PS3's

hardkore · 11 May 2006 at 20:25

Yep thats real. In a recent issue of PCZONE they're a article about game licences and past ones that could have been good but failed miserably. E.T was one of the games that comes to mind, they also mentioned robocop as well.
There was a part in the article where they mentioned that atari dumped a lot of games in a landfill. I didnt think it was true at first, but seeing that site you linked it must be true. Shocking really

roboffer · 11 May 2006 at 20:25

Im assuming this is the ET one? If so, I think the story is real, however the video is not (as you probably guessed)

Memphis · 11 May 2006 at 20:43

The story is most definately true.

Euro_Hunter · 11 May 2006 at 20:57

I remember playing this game when it came out, it was total carp.

Fortunately I had only rented it for the weekend.

JaFFa · 11 May 2006 at 21:48

its true yer but you cant go and find them as they hired steam rollers to destroy them all for fear of looters.

edit: just watched the video it seems you can dig them up, I definitely read they crushed them all I dont know if they set it up in the video or its real now.

In this case the rumor was accurate, although it wasn't the first time Atari had destroyed cartridges, nor was E.T. the only game dumped in New Mexico. (Rumor had it that Atari's Borregas Street warehouse sat atop crushed and buried game cartridges as well.) Some other video game manufacturers attempted to rid themselves of excess inventory by selling it at sharply reduced prices, but Atari, stuck with millions of games and consoles that were largely unsellable at any price, sent fourteen truckloads of merchandise from their plant in El Paso, Texas, to be dumped in a city landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico in late September 1983. In order to keep the site from being looted, steamrollers crushed and flattened the games, and a concrete slab was poured over the remains.

Snopes source

cokecan · 11 May 2006 at 23:12

yup def true, i posted about this earlier this year. lol just had to smile when i saw the video and how shoddy that game looked!