ren.dhark Posted November 13, 2001 Share Posted November 13, 2001 ... and this 100 ... Günther Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquid_sky Posted November 13, 2001 Share Posted November 13, 2001 beat ya to it.. but ill delete my previous post and let you claim 100 cuz i didnt mention 100 and you did happy 100! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NE146 Posted November 13, 2001 Share Posted November 13, 2001 so what's this about 5 million copies of e.t? Whats the story here... Can someone explain? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemmi Posted November 13, 2001 Share Posted November 13, 2001 LOL read the whole post start from page 1 its going to take awhile but all the info is in this thread somewhere Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moycon Posted November 14, 2001 Share Posted November 14, 2001 By the way...Are the plans under way to dig these things up? So many people have expressed an interest in doing so but is anyone actually following up on it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atari70s Posted November 14, 2001 Share Posted November 14, 2001 im still going with liquid sky to the desert i dont care what you all think. we will strike concrete and bring it home Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atarigamer Posted November 14, 2001 Author Share Posted November 14, 2001 Lets see......equipment (no check), car with enough gas (no check), enough food (no check), enough Atari fans to help (check). ET Carts $2, ET carts Sealled $5, the look on Atari fans face when they un-cover 5 million ET carts.....priceless. There are some thing money can't buy.....for everything else....there's AtariCard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moycon Posted November 14, 2001 Share Posted November 14, 2001 Actually I'd bet people would pay good $$$ for a chunk of concrete with an E.T. cart stickin out of it.... Just because the story is so imfamous. You'd have to do it right tho.... If you brought back 1 million E.T. carts that somehow survived the bull-dozer and still worked the price scheme would be more like. E.T cart .01 E.T Sealed 5.00 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atari70s Posted November 14, 2001 Share Posted November 14, 2001 here we go: Pickup truck $2500, gas & tolls both ways $55, Jackhammer Rental $125, Police Bail after being arrested $84, shovels to dig up the sand $35 , Getting a hurniea after attempting to push the crate of cement ( which has 5 million atari carts ) into the back of the pickup PRICELESS. For Somethings money can't buy, for everything else there's Atari Card! Atari Card is excepted everywhere you see the atari logo and is excepted by thousands of Atari Collectors around the world. The Proud Sponcer of the Classic Game Expo 2K2 in Las Vegas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atari70s Posted November 14, 2001 Share Posted November 14, 2001 atarigammer, your check list is wrong equipment no check we'll use liquidskys pickup check food check atari fans check double check metal hosptial no check Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Atari Posted November 14, 2001 Share Posted November 14, 2001 Police bail: $84, that's priceless . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atarigamer Posted November 15, 2001 Author Share Posted November 15, 2001 Well.....We don't have the gas money... . Unless someone's got enough cash to buy gas to drive all the way across the US, well unless Liquid_Sky lives near New Mexico.... Does he? . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquid_sky Posted November 15, 2001 Share Posted November 15, 2001 I live in central texas.. so its not too incredibally far of a drive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Bytchin Posted November 15, 2001 Share Posted November 15, 2001 I live about 65 miles away from Alamogordo...and drive up to the White Sands area, and as far as Roswell several times a year. I sure would love to know the general area of this landfill because I could make several trips a year looking for goodies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moycon Posted November 15, 2001 Share Posted November 15, 2001 Someone needs to start a web page and keep a journal. Day One: Found site of old landfill, Its since been covered over with dirt and there's no sign pointing to where the carts are. Plotting course of action. Day Two: Started digging randomly. Day Three: Dug all day and struck something hard about 10 feet down!! Re-grouped everyone and will continue digging tommorow. Day Four: The hard thing we struck yesterday was an old dryer. Continued random digging. Day Twelve: Found so far: 230 Coke cans 128 LP's 98 Rubix Cubes 67 Assorted mutilated and burned GI Joe and Star Wars Figures. 35 broken Master of the Universe figures. 27 Egg Shells 1 discarded plastic Christmas Tree 1 Bag of used dipers 1 MX Missle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atarigamer Posted November 15, 2001 Author Share Posted November 15, 2001 LOL. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atarigamer Posted November 15, 2001 Author Share Posted November 15, 2001 Hmmmm...... I guess we would find some Combat and Pac-Man. BTW, How many Combat's where thrown into the mystery landfill? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genki Posted November 16, 2001 Share Posted November 16, 2001 What? No Combat??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atarigamer Posted November 16, 2001 Author Share Posted November 16, 2001 Does anyone know? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moycon Posted November 16, 2001 Share Posted November 16, 2001 Yes I do. I know the guy who was in charge of the Burying Atari games in the Desert department at Atari in the early 80's. Luckily he kept a day play planner and he told me that they buried 1,789,273 Combats on March 11, 1982 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atarigamer Posted November 16, 2001 Author Share Posted November 16, 2001 Do you still have contacts with him? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moycon Posted November 17, 2001 Share Posted November 17, 2001 Heheh I can see they need to make a sarcastic graemlin. No atarigamer I made that up. I seriously doubt even if they did have a Burying Atari games in the Desert department at Atari that the person in charge would remember. That was 15 years ago and the company as it was is no longer around. But...Who knows maybe someone does know. Maybe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atarigamer Posted November 17, 2001 Author Share Posted November 17, 2001 Does anyone know the name of the Landfill? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moycon Posted November 17, 2001 Share Posted November 17, 2001 *sigh* It looks like that crappy Raiders thread beat out the E.T. thread. Funny thing is both games were written by the same guy and both games didn't live up to Atari's expectations when released. There was an old magazine from the 80's, Videogames I think was the one that had it. They were doing an awards article or something. And they mentioned both ET and Raiders, The award they gave Scott had something to do with the codeing it was the way they were both done but then they ended it with that it didnt matter because neither title did well. I'll try and find the article if I still have that magazine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanJr Posted November 17, 2001 Share Posted November 17, 2001 Yeah, but lets be fair, the Raiders thread beat this one anyway, because of the number of real, honest quality posts, not just people bumping it up to add extra posts. I'd like to see that article. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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