ET cartridges found in New Mexico desert

[Chigens and Kay 3,832]

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Hey there. This topic had already existed previously, so I have merged the two.

 

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[Tetrakemy 221]

Hey there. This topic had already existed previously, so I have merged the two.

 

When thinking about making a topic, please use the search function beforehand~

This topic could not have existed previously. The news is from today. Its TODAYS news. Its on the front page of yahoo. So how could it existed before?

[Wingnut 7,000]

Since I was actually alive at the time, I figure I may as well put my own two cents in.   Atari actually redeemed themselves from this disaster by producing several good quality games after this. Their Ms. Pac-Man port, for instance, still has many fans among vintage game enthusiasts. Unfortunately it wasn't enough to make up for the big flops like E.T. and the failure of the Atari 5200 system to compete with ColecoVision. Here is what CNN had to say about the unearthing of E.T.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/27/tech/gaming-gadgets/atari-et-video-game/

 

It was a pretty bad game, even by Atari 2600 standards. I read the poor reviews it got so I never nagged my dad to get one for me. But here is a walkthrough of it on Youtube just for laughs.

 

 

Most of the news reports say that E.T. was one of the reasons for the downturn in the home video game market in the early 80s. Not so. In 1983-1984 the prevailing belief among consumers and industry experts alike was that home computers, including the then very popular Commodore 64, would supplant single purpose gaming machines. "Nobody wants to just play games all the time." Nintendo proved how shortsighted this philosophy was with the launch of a superior 8 bit system a short time later.

Edited April 29, 2014 by Wingnut

[CT-1138 3,182]

O.O So the legends are true after all....

[long gone 8,929]

This topic could not have existed previously. The news is from today. Its TODAYS news. Its on the front page of yahoo. So how could it existed before?

Easy, someone else found it first.

[Geek0zoid 1,468]

What do ya know? Someone found those sons of bitches.

Time to see if they actually work!

[BayoUni2847 528]

Now the cartridges shall phone home, and aliens will come to Earth and praise the games like a holy entity, then they'll take all of the dug up games back onto their ship to bring back to their home planet so they may worship the piece of plastic...

 

...and then they'll vaporize Earth

 

On a more serious note, this is interesting. It makes you wonder what they'll do with them.

[SasQ 1,379]

Do these cartridges look anything like this?

 

 

[LED Dasher 228]

Step 1: Make a poor quality game.

Step 2: Bury the unsold games in a landfill.

Step 3: Wait three decades and then dig the games out to sell it to people who are interested in the urban legend.

Step 4: ???

Step 5: Profit. 

 

I know this joke is overused, but it's still relevant.

[RNgineer 161]

i always say there is always some truth to stories

[Breakfast 21]

I wanted to visit the dig but it's at the other side of the state.  Thankfully a friend of mine who owns a gaming store was there.  If I know him, he probably paid top dollar to get a copy of those games.

[Radiance64 7,053]

I've always wondered if that was true. Guess it is, yay.

I wonder if they had to drag them out of the fiery depths of hell, though. Probably not, but the cartridges have probably been there for their sins against gamingkind.

[FlutterDash4072 189]

This was pretty neat to hear about. I thought these games would be the electronic equivalent of Jimmy Hoffa, but I guess the mafia is better at hiding things than Atari was.

[Castle Bleck 19,376]

SteveTheDevil's reaction:

 

Edited April 29, 2014 by Anti-Villain

[Tigerpop198 696]

People might be able to make money from this game now. Think of the tagline.

"It's so horrible, it's been buried in the ground for 30 years."

[XxConfusedUnicornxX 834]

That's awesome they found it and all but I don't think anyone would play a game like that... Maybe someone would but it probably doesn't work anymore so yeah, I don't care

[Guest]

They should've buried all known copies of Big Rig's Over The Road Racing instead.

[Shanks 10,816]

"He is gonna take you back to the past, to play the shitty games that suck ass." That was literally the first thing that popped into my head when I heard this news, I would so post the Angry Video Game Nerd theme song because it would be so perfect for this occasion but it would get taken down for "excessive vulgarity."

[BinaryPony 120]

I think we should burn them like the Ouija Boards, but that's just me.

[Moost 164]

I just feel sorry for the poor bastards that brought the game.

[Moved to Elsewhere 11,331]

I heard about this. It's funny looks like that myth is busted.

 

Heh I wonder if the copies still work? Maybe to make them work you just blow on the cartridge. 

[BinaryPony 120]

I heard about this. It's funny looks like that myth is busted.

 

Heh I wonder if the copies still work? Maybe to make them work you just blow on the cartridge. 

Yes, yes... blow on it... so that they may never work again! Muahahahahah!!!!

(proof: http://mentalfloss.com/article/12589/did-blowing-nintendo-cartridges-really-help)

[NomDeSpite 452]

Wait a minute...people actually doubted the E.T. game burial story? Oh ye of little faith! I've known this was true for the last 12 years, when Seanbaby covered the story in EGM. Apparently there are enough cartridges outside the landfill that the game doesn't cost very much on Amazon.

 

I'm also skeptical that the game is really as bad as people say. How can it be worse than Action 52?

[Castle Bleck 19,376]

How can it be worse than Action 52?

 

Or Plumbers Don't Wear Ties, for that matter?

[NomDeSpite 452]

 

 

Or Plumbers Don't Wear Ties, for that matter?

"Were you raised in a barn?" The AVGN's review of that game was one of the funniest he has ever done.