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General Chat => All the rest => Topic started by: ckong on June 03, 2013, 06:28:05 PM
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.... We will know it soon.
http://www.alamogordonews.com/news/ci_23342105/alamogordo-green-lights-search-buried-atari-game?IADID=Search-www.alamogordonews.com-www.alamogordonews.com
Let´s take bets. I bet that it is fact. :D
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Or is it fiction, as Martin Goldberg, one of the author´s of Atari Inc, business is fun, claims?
There were never thousands of ET games buried in Alamorgodo, that's a myth that sprung up later and was also never once mentioned by the actual press articles of the time. The dump there was simply a clearing out of Atari's Texas manufacturing plant as it transitioned to automated production methods and a focus on personal computer manufacturing. It had previously been one of the main plants for manufacturing of game cartridges and other hardware, and game manufacturing was being moved overseas to China.
As part of the transition the unused cartridge stock of a group of titles (not just E.T.), console parts and computer parts were all dumped there in New Mexico. It was covered in detail by the Alamogordo press at the time, and is just such a non-mystery that I'm surprised by all this.
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It is a fact. It is well known and confirmed. But if they will find a couple of thousand plastic cartridges in a huge landfill.....I know better ways of wasting my time :)
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He says right there that ET cartridges were amongst them....so they must be there.... at least a couple of hundred....
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But what about the truth of this story: http://jgtwo.wordpress.com/2011/09/23/the-e-t-landfill-story-fact-fiction-argle-bargle-or-fooferaw/
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I know better ways of wasting my time :)
You said Wasting 8)
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Yeah, so ?
I think it's rather pointless.
I've seen hundreds of worse games than E.T.
People just love stories like that and the story, or just one aspect of it gets out of proportion over time. It's how legends were created....and still are.
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I am sure the AVGN will find them ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiz95K1ngiI
The film is inspired by the famous Atari video game burial of 1982. Atari produced a game based on the biggest blockbuster movie of that year, E.T., and rushed it to meet the deadline for the Christmas shopping season. It was a commercial failure and millions of unsold game cartridges were buried in a desert landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Coincidentally, it's not too far from Roswell, the landing site of a different kind of E.T.
AVGN Movie Update 5-25-12: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXJ9Xadot3U
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Well, Even if they are there, they are most likely damaged and ruined, being in the ground for sooooo long.... buried and crushed. The odds are if they are there, you might find one in so so condition. but would it be worth it to dig and dig to find it?
Might be fun if you had the time....
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but would it be worth it to dig and dig to find it?
Sure it is, but not to get any financial gain from whatever it is they will unearth. The sole reason is to debunk a 30 year old myth, and find out what's REALLY the truth behind this whole story.
Or maybe the REAL E.T. has already unearthed all those things years ago, and decided that with THAT technology it's absolutely not yet worthwile to make contact with humankind ;D
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Call Ric Savage ! ;D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Digger_(TV_series)