Topic: Buried E.T. 2600 games found Maybe we can stop refrencing the "urban legend" now

[Ratty]

https://games.yahoo.com/news/diggers-ataris-e-t-games-landfill-193256509.html

Or at least maybe we'll be able to stop mentioning them when the Xbox(tm) documentary comes and goes. E.T. isn't even the worst game on the Atari, much less the worst game of all time. It just disappointed a lot of kids and coincided with the inevitable crash of the game industry.

[Abnormal Freak]

Pretty cool it's been confirmed, though it's kind of annoying that James Rolfe hasn't gotten his movie out yet. Better get that done quick before it's no longer relevant.

[X]

Too late for him now I think. I didn't like the film as it haunted me for years on end (F**kin' dying alien traumatized me in my sleep for well over a f**kin' decade!), and I can certainly care even less about the game itself.

[Bloodreign]

What gets me is the copies of Centipede buried with these ET carts. Why Centipede? It's actually a damned good port of the arcade hit, there's no reason it should be buried alongside these ET games (yet no Pac-Man finds yet). I remember playing ET all those years ago and not being impressed with it, it felt like a crappy game even back then, but it's crappiness to me got overshadowed by Hydlide on the NES. There are far worse 2600 games out there, shit like Custer's Revenge and Beat Em and Eat Em. But Atari was either to bury them, or sit amongst a pile of unsold copies for eternity, only now that realization of these carts is back to life for the devs who worked on this game hoping they would be lost for eternity.

[Rugal]

When are they going to bury all the Lords of Shadow games? 

[X]

Because the same trend of 'forget & rediscovery' might just happen.

[beingthehero]

What gets me is the copies of Centipede buried with these ET carts. Why Centipede? It's actually a damned good port of the arcade hit, there's no reason it should be buried alongside these ET games (yet no Pac-Man finds yet).

Wasn't the whole deal with the landfill that Atari had produced far, far more cartridges of these games than the actual number of consoles on the market?

I'm also surprised people thought it was an urban legend. You can find the original story when it happened in the New York Times' archive.

Edit: http://kotaku.com/awesome-photos-from-the-atari-landfill-1568711945
Apparently it was everything Atari had in excess, regardless of quality.

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

Apparently they used any stuff they had too much stock of, to fill that landfill.
I loved Yars Revenge, Centipede, and other titles that are in there.

[KaZudra]

the only think im thinking is how is this gonna affect the AVGN movie since it was based on that story...