• Diggers Find Atari E.T Games

    From HusTler@VERT/DIGDIST to All on Saturday, April 26, 2014 16:01:11
    I see a lot of Atari chit chat so I thought I'd share the url to the article I found. It seems some diggers found some what was thought to be extinct Atari Games. Can anyone tell me the value of these games? Check it out.

    http://tinyurl.com/nyyob8u


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  • From Kirkman@VERT/GUARDIAN to HusTler on Saturday, April 26, 2014 21:57:23
    Re: Diggers Find Atari E.T Games
    By: HusTler to All on Sat Apr 26 2014 04:01 pm

    I see a lot of Atari chit chat so I thought I'd share the url to the article I found. It seems some diggers found some what was thought to be extinct Atari Games. Can anyone tell me the value of these games? Check it out.

    Probably worthless. E.T. in particular was produced in excessive quantities and
    can still be commonly found.

    Maybe someone would be willing to pay a little extra for a copy straight from the dump. Apparently the city is claiming ownership of everything found at the dig, and will be auctioning some of it off.

    The authors of the recent Atari Inc: Business Is FUn book, say this whole thing
    was a clearing out of Atari's El Paso plant as it changed from cartridge manufacturing to consoles and computers. These authors maintain that it wasn't millions of ET carts being dumped (as the urban legend commonly has it), but a whole assortment of games, consoles, and computers.

    The little bit that we've seen so far in photos and stuff seems to back this up. Folks have spotted about 20+ different titles for the 2600 from the dump images today.

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  • From Mindless Automaton@VERT/ELDRITCH to Kirkman on Sunday, April 27, 2014 00:28:28
    On 4/26/2014 10:57 PM, Kirkman wrote:


    The little bit that we've seen so far in photos and stuff seems to back this up. Folks have spotted about 20+ different titles for the 2600 from the dump


    Yeah, the article talks about ET, but the first picture in the article
    is Yars Revenge or something else.

    The whole ET thing is funny to me because back in the day when my family
    had an Atari, my sister and I played ET all the time and had fun with it
    from what I remember.

    Go figure..

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  • From HusTler@VERT/DIGDIST to Mindless Automaton on Sunday, April 27, 2014 03:45:37
    Re: Re: Diggers Find Atari E.T Games
    By: Mindless Automaton to Kirkman on Sun Apr 27 2014 00:28:28

    Yeah, the article talks about ET, but the first picture in the article
    is Yars Revenge or something else.

    The whole ET thing is funny to me because back in the day when my family had an Atari, my sister and I played ET all the time and had fun with it from what I remember.

    I don't rember

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  • From HusTler@VERT/DIGDIST to Mindless Automaton on Sunday, April 27, 2014 04:07:09
    Re: Re: Diggers Find Atari E.T Games
    By: HusTler to Mindless Automaton on Sun Apr 27 2014 03:45:37

    The whole ET thing is funny to me because back in the day when my
    family had an Atari, my sister and I played ET all the time and had
    fun with it from what I remember.

    I don't rember

    Ooops. I don't remember ET but it was supposed to be one of the worst games for Atari. I wonder what the value will be in another 20 or 50 years? I don't want to even think about the stuff I've tossed in the trash over the years.

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to HusTler on Sunday, April 27, 2014 08:04:21
    Re: Re: Diggers Find Atari E.T Games
    By: HusTler to Mindless Automaton on Sun Apr 27 2014 04:07:09

    Ooops. I don't remember ET but it was supposed to be one of the worst games for Atari. I wonder what the value will be in another 20 or 50 years? I don't want to even think about the stuff I've tossed in the
    trash over the years.

    I've never considered throwing away a video game.. But it sounds like there were so many buried - Was it that bad?

    Nightfox

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  • From Mro@VERT/BBSESINF to Mindless Automaton on Sunday, April 27, 2014 10:29:50
    Re: Re: Diggers Find Atari E.T Games
    By: Mindless Automaton to Kirkman on Sun Apr 27 2014 12:28 am


    The whole ET thing is funny to me because back in the day when my family had an Atari, my sister and I played ET all the time and had fun with it from what I remember.


    yeah i played it. i dont remember much about it. i'm not so sure it was fun. maybe i thought it was fun just because it had ET, and et was big back then. ---
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  • From Khelair@VERT/TINFOIL to Mindless Automaton on Sunday, April 27, 2014 16:16:59
    Re: Re: Diggers Find Atari E.T Games
    By: Mindless Automaton to Kirkman on Sun Apr 27 2014 00:28:28

    Yeah, the article talks about ET, but the first picture in the article
    is Yars Revenge or something else.

    The whole ET thing is funny to me because back in the day when my family had an Atari, my sister and I played ET all the time and had fun with it from what I remember.

    I ended up with a used cartridge for ET; I think it was for the 2600, not my later 600XL or 130XE. I was really pumped to get it, but when I obtained it I still hadn't found any legitimate internet access nor could I afford any services that provided it for profit. I couldn't figure out how to play the damn game. The only part that I remember having any fun with when I was playing it was extending the alien's neck and flying around a bit. Wasn't there some sort of hazard above that you had to avoid, as well?

    Yars revenge was one of the first games that I purchased for my 2600 that was up in the higher tier games; I think they were the ones that were like $20 at that time. I wouldn't mind playing that again; I should check and see if I can find a place that has that as a flash based one on the www.

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  • From Chris Trainor@VERT/FLEETHQ to Khelair on Monday, April 28, 2014 11:40:59
    Re: Re: Diggers Find Atari E.T Games
    By: Khelair to Mindless Automaton on Sun Apr 27 2014 16:16:59

    The problem with E.T. on the Atari 2600 was that 1: it sucked, but more importantly there were a pile of bugs. There were several instances where you could get stuck in the game. Holes you can't get out of, etc.

    Poor guys by time they got the license crap dealt with for the game they had like 4 or 5 days to write it, test it and ship it for the holiday season.


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  • From Android8675@VERT/SHODAN to HusTler on Wednesday, April 30, 2014 09:05:40
    Re: Diggers Find Atari E.T Games
    By: HusTler to All on Sat Apr 26 2014 04:01 pm

    I see a lot of Atari chit chat so I thought I'd share the url to the
    article I found. It seems some diggers found some what was thought to be
    extinct Atari Games. Can anyone tell me the value of these games? Check
    it out.
    http://tinyurl.com/nyyob8u

    So Video game history has had it's share of urban legends, weird code in games that may or may not exist, being able to play as shao khan in MK1, etc. Some true, some not so true.

    So back in the day, the movie E.T. wanted a movie tie-in game. Atari came up with the game featured in this article. As we know today you put a movie license with a video game and you usually end up with tripe. ET for the 2600 being (for accounts) the first licensed movie game really got the ball rolling. The game is SHIT. I've never had a game fustrate me within 3 minutes. It's horrid.

    So bad was it that Atari decided to bury a ton of leftovers in new mexico, and no one was really sure if they did it or what... it became an urban legend. New Mexico finally let a bunch of gamer nerds/historians dig up the site to see if the legend was true...


    Turns out it was.

    The game is still shit, I wouldn't buy a copy if they paid me to take it off their hands.

    Still it's one of those legends that I think it was pretty cool to see people genuinely still curious about the fate of an old 2600 game. Gamers have a lot of time to think about things during long gaming sessions.


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  • From Mro@VERT/BBSESINF to Android8675 on Thursday, May 01, 2014 21:37:35
    Re: Diggers Find Atari E.T Games
    By: Android8675 to HusTler on Wed Apr 30 2014 09:05 am

    2600 being (for accounts) the first licensed movie game really got the ball rolling. The game is SHIT. I've never had a game fustrate me within 3 minutes. It's horrid.

    So bad was it that Atari decided to bury a ton of leftovers in new mexico, and no one was really sure if they did it or what... it became an urban legend. New Mexico finally let a bunch of gamer nerds/historians dig up the site to see if the legend was true...



    i'm not so sure it was an urban legend. i read about it in books. i think
    the internet gave it that urban legend spin.

    also i'm pretty sure they didnt bury it because it was so bad. there were other reasons, i'm pretty sure. and they did it with other stuff, as had other companies.

    The game is still shit, I wouldn't buy a copy if they paid me to take it
    off their hands.


    well, you are playing it out of context. ET was fucking huge back then.
    i dont rememember it stinking or being that great either.

    Still it's one of those legends that I think it was pretty cool to see people genuinely still curious about the fate of an old 2600 game. Gamers have a lot of time to think about things during long gaming sessions.


    i'm pretty sure the internet made this into a hyped up legend.
    i was there and i dont remember much of this.
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  • From Kirkman@VERT/GUARDIAN to Android8675 on Sunday, May 04, 2014 20:15:04
    Re: Diggers Find Atari E.T Games
    By: Android8675 to HusTler on Wed Apr 30 2014 09:05 am

    So bad was it that Atari decided to bury a ton of leftovers in new mexico, and no one was really sure if they did it or what... it became an urban legend. New Mexico finally let a bunch of gamer nerds/historians dig up the site to see if the legend was true...

    See, this isn't really true. It wasn't only E.T. that was buried there.

    There were over 30 different games, along with peripherals, etc. And it wasn't millions of carts, but thousands. Finally, it wasn't a secret. There were articles about it at the time, including in the New York Times.

    But over the years, the truth of the dump became legend: "E.T. was so bad, Atari had to bury millions of cartridges in the desert." And that is false.

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  • From Mro@VERT/BBSESINF to Kirkman on Monday, May 05, 2014 15:51:25
    Re: Diggers Find Atari E.T Games
    By: Kirkman to Android8675 on Sun May 04 2014 08:15 pm

    mexico, and no one was really sure if they did it or what... it became
    an urban legend. New Mexico finally let a bunch of gamer
    nerds/historians dig up the site to see if the legend was true...

    See, this isn't really true. It wasn't only E.T. that was buried there.

    There were over 30 different games, along with peripherals, etc. And it wasn't millions of carts, but thousands. Finally, it wasn't a secret. There


    this exemplifies how the internet takes lies and republishes them so much in so many places, they become false truths. wikipedia is a prime example. history has been rewritten many times over there.

    i remember this atari situation written about in books years ago. there was no legend. they had to get rid of scrap.

    et wasnt the worst game in history. it wasnt the reason for atari being sold. jesus, there's so much bullshit out there about this now.
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  • From Ennev@VERT/MTLGEEK to Mro on Tuesday, May 06, 2014 13:25:15
    this exemplifies how the internet takes lies and republishes them so much in so
    many places, they become false truths. wikipedia is a prime example. history has been rewritten many times over there.

    The problem is also with journalist who don't bother to research news
    anymore.

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  • From Mro@VERT/BBSESINF to Ennev on Tuesday, May 06, 2014 21:29:42
    Re: Re: Diggers Find Atari E.T Games
    By: Ennev to Mro on Tue May 06 2014 01:25 pm

    in so many places, they become false truths. wikipedia is a prime example. history has been rewritten many times over there.

    The problem is also with journalist who don't bother to research news anymore.



    yeah, but the BS story is more interesting. that's probably why it took off like this.
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  • From Knight@VERT/PHUNC to Ennev on Wednesday, May 07, 2014 08:06:01
    Re: Re: Diggers Find Atari E.T Games
    By: Ennev to Mro on Tue May 06 2014 01:25 pm

    The problem is also with journalist who don't bother to research news anymore.

    Pretty disgusting that the meidia has become this stupid.
    Knight

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  • From Mindless Automaton@VERT/ELDRITCH to Mro on Wednesday, May 07, 2014 10:03:50
    On 5/6/2014 10:29 PM, Mro wrote:
    Re: Re: Diggers Find Atari E.T Games
    By: Ennev to Mro on Tue May 06 2014 01:25 pm

    > > in so many places, they become false truths. wikipedia is a prime
    > > example. history has been rewritten many times over there.

    > The problem is also with journalist who don't bother to research news
    > anymore.

    yeah, but the BS story is more interesting. that's probably why it took off like this.

    More importantly, when you pull these out of the dump, do you just blow
    on the contacts or do you use an eraser to clean them before playing the
    game? ;P

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  • From Mro@VERT/BBSESINF to Mindless Automaton on Wednesday, May 07, 2014 22:22:13
    Re: Re: Diggers Find Atari E.T Games
    By: Mindless Automaton to Mro on Wed May 07 2014 10:03 am

    yeah, but the BS story is more interesting. that's probably why it took off like this.

    More importantly, when you pull these out of the dump, do you just blow
    on the contacts or do you use an eraser to clean them before playing the game? ;P


    yeah, if you can BLOW REALLY HARD and get the bananna peel and baby diaper matter off the cart.
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  • From First Officer@VERT/HOLODECK to Ennev on Thursday, May 08, 2014 10:19:03
    Re: Re: Diggers Find Atari E.T Games
    By: Ennev to Mro on Tue May 06 2014 01:25 pm

    this exemplifies how the internet takes lies and republishes them so much in so many places, they become false truths. wikipedia is a prime example. history has been rewritten many times over there.

    The problem is also with journalist who don't bother to research news anymore.

    So much of that is because Journalists don't care about reporting the truth anymore, just supporting an agenda.


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  • From Khelair@VERT/TINFOIL to Ennev on Saturday, May 10, 2014 00:31:56
    Re: Re: Diggers Find Atari E.T Games
    By: Ennev to Mro on Tue May 06 2014 13:25:15

    this exemplifies how the internet takes lies and republishes them so much in so
    many places, they become false truths. wikipedia is a prime example. history
    has been rewritten many times over there.

    Also, it's not like governments haven't taken note of the fact
    that wikipedia is an ad hoc conglomeration that is now touted as fact
    by John Q. Netsurfer who thinks he/she is king/queen sheisse for using
    google to research something. Try creating an account for editing on
    there and editing the history of any controversial figure. Take John
    F. Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson, Malcolm X, Hitler, even
    Charlie Chaplin or Michael Jackson. Edit a fact about their lives;
    something debatable, like whether Lincoln's assassination was primarily
    about the slave issue or about the greenbacks. Watch how long it takes
    to get reverted; watch the page & check the timestamps on the
    reversion. There are botnets watching for the like; they've got a
    response time that can only be compared to a botnet of good processing capabilities and bandwidth. You really think that's a loose-knit group
    of hackers trying to make what would be a pretty trivial change to
    historical fact, or political ties with an agenda?

    The problem is also with journalist who don't bother to research news anymore.

    Well, yes, this can be a problem. At the same time, though,
    you also need to know that journalism is still taught correctly in universities, at least in the USA. The problem with go-getters that
    make it out to the field now isn't the fact that they're too lazy to do
    their jobs or too stupid. It's the intelligence agencies' plants in
    the mainstream corporate media of the country in question. They decide
    what gets printed, what doesn't, and they hire and promote based on
    people who adhere to these principles. Renegades get dealt with. Look
    at the journalists who followed up on Princess Diana's death. That's
    just the very tip of the iceberg.


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