Well, this was something I never thought I'd see in my lifetime...
Back in 1983 14 trucks of the game "E.T. The Extra Terrestrial" for the Atari 2600 were buried in a New Mexico landfill and was christened "The Worst Video Game Ever"
They found them for an upcoming documentary exclusively on Xbox One.
For those wondering Jame Rolfe, who is currently making his own theatrical movie based on the urban legend, has
released a statement about the find.
Let's all rejoice!
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But the last time I played it was when I was maybe 7 or 8? I was just happy the dots on the screen were moving where I told them to
But this begs the question. Why?
"We have years of struggle ahead, mostly within ourselves." - Made in USA
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Honestly the prospect of this is way more interesting to me, since I already knew the ET landfill story was true
They were thinking they were printing money since ET was so super freaking unbelievably popular.
So they could bury them deeper?
The problem was making more cartridges then consoles...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXtehH_abRQ
There's a pretty good chance they just dumped whole wrapped pallets of the games in a hole using a forklift. So the ones near the bottom middle should be in pretty much the same condition they would be if they were just left in a shipping container.
Its not just exclusive to ET, there have been other landfill excavations that dug up 50+ year old newspapers that were almost like new.
But that's starting to get into a "make its own damn thread" territory.
We let our curiosity get the best of us and know we have unleashed this horror.
What have we done?
Hundreds dead as Balrog rampages through New Mexico.
This is actually an easy one:
A warehouse full of unsold copies & returns. I mean, what else are you going to do with them? There were no large recycling efforts for electronics at that time, and no reason to keep them in storage somewhere (which would be pretty expensive given the volume of space the damn things took up).
Atari just made a colossal error manufacturing that many carts, and this was on top of a series of errors made in close proximity (trying to fight Activision on shaky legal grounds about third party development, making a terrible Pac Man port that damaged consumer confidence in the Atari brand name, over estimating company growth / performance and losing some of their best talent over the decision to block game developers from putting their names on the games they created). Taking the physical precipitate of those mistakes and carting it off to the landfill was probably as much a symbolic gesture as it was a pragmatic necessity.
We use the technology of the future to destroy them properly!
And by that I mean a phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range.
This new unwholesome discovery should spawn a fresh new SCP entry...
I believe their plan is to have the last guy to leave stand around awkwardly whistling before kicking some dirt on top of them and driving away.
I think you're grossly overestimating people's capabilities of learning from the past. There's no sobering lesson that can't be counteracted by a solid dose of good ole hubris.
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Also, they should totally auction off those carts for whatever their adjusted retail price is and see if they can make more money off them as garbage than they did as an actual product. :P
It's all a bit weird.
It's a trap!
"Hmm, yes... this certainly is a cartridge!'
It's not a landfill full of ET carts; it's a landfill where they happened to ship off a bunch of ET carts. The landfill is otherwise just another landfill filled with other assorted garbage (and probably a bunch of other Atari junk from when they cleared-out the warehouse where they were storing the carts).
And getting paid to do it.