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Atari Landfill Excavation on April 26
Oobgarm:
I'm not sure what to make of this whole thing. It's a neat piece of lore, but I really think that excavating this isn't going to really yield anything. Weren't the contents crushed and covered in cement? I completely believe they're buried there, though.
If anything, this will lay the story to rest, finally.
--- Quote from: Ozzy_98 on April 23, 2014, 06:50:18 PM ---One thing that always gets me, anti-fanboys who claim ET is such a bad game. If you think ET is even in the top 10 worst games, just on the 2600, you've lived a sheltered life. There's games the AVGN hasn't even come close to touching (And a lot of them live on the PC Engine for some odd reason...). ET was actually a damn good game for the time, heck, it had a title screen. But people don't know how to play, don't read the instructions so they don't understand what each symbol does, and they can't figure out the getting out of holes thing.
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I wouldn't say that it's anti-fanboys saying this, as it's kinda become retconned into the system's legacy. Most of the gaming populace think it's truth, but there are those of us in the collecting circle that know it's not the case.
Dr.Agon:
--- Quote from: Ozzy_98 on April 23, 2014, 06:50:18 PM ---I don't see why people think it's so hard to believe. They made way to many ET and pac-man carts, so they needed to dispose of them. They produced 12 million Pac-Man games, when there were 10 million Atari 2600s. So how should they dispose of them? Landfills were the cheapest way.
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why not just recycle them into other, more popular games?
Oobgarm:
--- Quote from: Dr.Agon on April 23, 2014, 07:36:38 PM ---
--- Quote from: Ozzy_98 on April 23, 2014, 06:50:18 PM ---I don't see why people think it's so hard to believe. They made way to many ET and pac-man carts, so they needed to dispose of them. They produced 12 million Pac-Man games, when there were 10 million Atari 2600s. So how should they dispose of them? Landfills were the cheapest way.
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why not just recycle them into other, more popular games?
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When the market crashed, no one was buying anything. They couldn't have recycled them into anything, really.
Ozzy_98:
They were cutting back by that time, and to reuse them, you'd need something to desolder all the roms, take apart the cases, ect. I'm betting it's cheaper to dump the cases and make new than open them up, remove the label, and return them to existing assembly line machines. Besides, they had plenty of new cases to use up, and with their over projected sales figures, and time warner dumping them, they'd have to scramble to find use for them.
wiggy:
E.T. is a terrible game. Not the worst, but terrible none-the-less. That is all.