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Atari landfill yields up ET stash

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The rumors were true about a heap of old Atari stock unceremoniously buried in the desert.  Awesome story.  I think I remember that game, and recall I found it really, really ugly.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27187609

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Atari was thought to have dumped truckloads of unsold games in the landfill site on the outskirts of Alamogordo in 1983 as the company was winding down.

The game maker's descent from its position as the dominant force in home gaming in the late 1970s and early 1980s was swift and has been partly blamed on the gamble it took on making a game of Steven Spielberg's 1982 hit film ET.

The game was made from scratch in five weeks for the Atari 2600 console. Even before the game was finished Atari, committed huge amounts of money and resources to it and produced millions of copies when it was done.

The ET game has been described as one of the worst ever created. Its challenging game play and poor graphics put people off buying it and left Atari with huge amounts of unsold inventory.
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Atari landfill yields up ET stash RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-28 14:29 +0000
  Re: Atari landfill yields up ET stash Scion <a.b@nospam.invalid> - 2014-04-29 10:13 +0000
    Re: Atari landfill yields up ET stash RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-29 17:06 +0000
      Re: Atari landfill yields up ET stash Will Honea <whonea@whonea.net> - 2014-04-29 12:31 -0600
        Re: Atari landfill yields up ET stash Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-05-01 17:32 +0200

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