atari8warez Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 Atari's E.T. The Extraterrestrial cartridges found in landfill 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 Nice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 Kill it with fire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 Wow - 31 years later this "myth" has been confirmed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 (edited) Wow - 31 years later this "myth" has been confirmed Hilarious. It reminds me of how a cat buries its crap in the dirt. So it ends up that the explanations for why this story was a myth end up being the myths themselves. Just imagine, if something happening so recent can fall into controversy like this, how many stories from the past have been turned into "myths" because people just don't want to, or can't, believe them. Of course I understand skepticism, but even when we do find artifacts, people who don't want to believe the obvious reasons for their existence try and feed people bullcrap explanations, like with some of the megalithic structures around the world, and ancient technologies. Anyway... this is really funny. No wonder Atari bit the dust... Edited April 27, 2014 by MrFish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Cafeman Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 I always felt the story was true - it isn't that hard to believe they'd dump unwanted inventory - but there were always naysayers saying it was a myth. Pretty amazing that it took 30 years to confirm it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idavis Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 Every story I have seen so far has said they found about 200 cartridges. Well that's Geraldo level in my opinion. Not quite millions.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snicklin Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 Marty Goldberg has informed me on FB that there isn't just E.T., some Atari 8 bit hardware is also in there, amongst other things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbking67 Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 its a big landfill site... there's lots more Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 Marty Goldberg has informed me on FB that there isn't just E.T., some Atari 8 bit hardware is also in there, amongst other things. Hope it gets sold for a reasonable price Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synthpopalooza Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 Apparently 720,000 carts were dumped, not all of them E.T. So far they have found various titles including Warlords, Defender, Yars Revenge, Centipede ... many of it was unsold inventory returned to Atari from retail stores, as some of the boxes had Target stickers on them. Apparently some hardware (2600's) were found too, along with sundry items like Paddle, touch pad and joystick controllers. It's a shame the stuff was just rubbished. Especially when it could have been donated to charity or something else where people would enjoy them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 Completely piss poor management by Atari, as Centipede, Defender, and Yars Revenge were three absolutely top-tier titles on that platform. They probably made more copies of the games than they made 2600s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drummerboy Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 According to reports they found 2600 Cartridges, Joysticks parts, and others Atari parts including Atari 8Bit Hardware, but for now i not see which kind of Atari 8Bit part was found. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peteym5 Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 Maybe while searching for flight 370, they will accidentally find more Atari stuff at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. Honestly by '82 Atari should had done the 5200 that was 100% an Atari 8-bit without a keyboard (Like XEGS) with just a 32K cartridge port. Why would you make more cartridges than there are game systems available? E.T. and Pac-Man could had been done better even with 2600 abilities. I rather play MS. Pac-Man on the 2600 because that was done much better. They could have had E.T. running around a maze getting Reese Pieces while evading those government people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 It's a shame the stuff was just rubbished. Especially when it could have been donated to charity or something else where people would enjoy them. Yeah, but when you're writing off inventory you don't want that free stuff out there interfering with future sales. That's why they went to such measures to dump it securely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilaskey Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 So basically exactly what Curt & Marty said in their book last year... it really annoys me how much disinformation the media is pushing out on this/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegamezmaster Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 Wonder what other 8bit computer stuff they found? As far as making more carts than systems, stupid is as stupid does I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atari8warez Posted April 29, 2014 Author Share Posted April 29, 2014 Wonder what other 8bit computer stuff they found? As far as making more carts than systems, stupid is as stupid does I guess. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (roughly 70 copies present in the archaeology team's collection, a very rough working estimate of 700 copies total were found during the excavation, which in total remains a very small sample—possibly 2% of Atari's total "buried treasure" in the landfill) Raiders of the Lost Ark Yars' Revenge Pele's Soccer Superman Human Cannonball Circus Atari Night Driver Adventure Haunted House Combat-CX-2601 Defender (Atari 2600) Defender (Atari 5200) Space Invaders Air-Sea Battle Missile Command Pac-Man Ms. Pac-Man Warlords Swordquest: Fireworld Vanguard Star Raiders Real Sports: Football Qix Phoenix Asteroids Berzerk Centipede Breakout Super Breakout Atari's buried treasure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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