atari's landfill rumor

cokecan · 26 Jan 2006 at 19:53

this has more than likely been posted before but still, came across this on digg.com earlier today and thought i was quite amusing lol. typical games industry tbh rushing things

http://keithschofield.com/et/

roboffer · 26 Jan 2006 at 20:07

Thats great

Big Spender · 26 Jan 2006 at 20:37

lol, i wonder if thats true, maybe can make a small fortune out of some of the games

cokecan · 26 Jan 2006 at 20:41

one of my friends reckons it actually is true, i reckon it could be

try and make a fortune selling them on egay? lol really wanna try E.T now just to see how poor it is

Jokester · 26 Jan 2006 at 20:41

As far as I'm aware it's true that Atari buried millions of ET cartridges out in the desert somewhere.

Jokester

Edit:- True

cokecan · 26 Jan 2006 at 21:07

lol unbelievable

"soooooooo, E.T was a complete waste of time and money. what shall we do with all these cartridges?........lets bury them and forget they ever existed!"

developers should take note of this. not to rush games out!!!

Werewolf · 26 Jan 2006 at 21:34

You'll note that Atari were also relying on the sales of games to help pay for the hardware

I've heard about that ET burial for years from various sources (including a couple of very reputable ones), but the video is great

Another example of jumping the gun with games would be the Maxwell family/Atari and Tetris, the BBC or C4 had a great show on it a while back, basically there were 3 or 4 companies interested in getting the licence, and Atari/Maxsoft (or whatever it was called) jumped the gun on getting it onto the market.

NokkonWud · 28 Jan 2006 at 02:52

Jokester said:
As far as I'm aware it's true that Atari buried millions of ET cartridges out in the desert somewhere.

Jokester

Edit:- True

Yeah, it's a well known story that they were burried.

Metalface Mark · 28 Jan 2006 at 07:55

I had ET when i had my 2600, i remember playing it a lot, but really not having much of an idea what i was supposed to be doing.

Pacman was worse, it was such a sloppy conversion, and i still played it for hours at a time

sja360 · 28 Jan 2006 at 11:30

Werewolf said:
You'll note that Atari were also relying on the sales of games to help pay for the hardware

I've heard about that ET burial for years from various sources (including a couple of very reputable ones), but the video is great

Another example of jumping the gun with games would be the Maxwell family/Atari and Tetris, the BBC or C4 had a great show on it a while back, basically there were 3 or 4 companies interested in getting the licence, and Atari/Maxsoft (or whatever it was called) jumped the gun on getting it onto the market.

yea i watched that aswell pretty good tv

shame there isnt more gaming industry stories on tv. its not as if its totally talking about gaming all the time either.