What are you doing besides playing on the Planet?

*Anya* · 02-17-2017, 10:49 PM

Watching a documentary on the downfall of Atari called Atari: game over.

It is really interesting.

What killed it? The game was ET The Extraterrestrial, made for the 2600 console.

The game was called the worst video game ever by gamers and video magazines.

The company wound up with so many millions of unsold cartridges, they buried them in a New Mexico landfill and the company went under.

Postscript: in 2014, fans, original employees and the game designer got permission to to dig up the landfill to try to find the dumped & buried cartridges.

18 feet down, they found ET cartridges in boxes and all the gathered geeks gave a cheer! They did not find millions of them, however, and all involved decided that ET should not take the blame for the death of the company.

There were other factors at work.

They then also decided ET was not the worst video game of all time and that there were plenty that were far worse..

It was sweet.

02-17-2017, 10:49 PM	#11
Anya Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Lesbian non-stone femme Preferred Pronoun?: She, her Relationship Status: Committed to being good to myself Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: West Coast Posts: 8,258 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 39,306 Thanked 40,444 Times in 7,285 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	Spoiler alert Watching a documentary on the downfall of Atari called Atari: game over. It is really interesting. What killed it? The game was ET The Extraterrestrial, made for the 2600 console. The game was called the worst video game ever by gamers and video magazines. The company wound up with so many millions of unsold cartridges, they buried them in a New Mexico landfill and the company went under. Postscript: in 2014, fans, original employees and the game designer got permission to to dig up the landfill to try to find the dumped & buried cartridges. 18 feet down, they found ET cartridges in boxes and all the gathered geeks gave a cheer! They did not find millions of them, however, and all involved decided that ET should not take the blame for the death of the company. There were other factors at work. They then also decided ET was not the worst video game of all time and that there were plenty that were far worse.. It was sweet. __________________ ~Anya~ Democracy Dies in Darkness ~Washington Post "...I'm deeply concerned by recently adopted policies which punish children for their parents’ actions ... The thought that any State would seek to deter parents by inflicting such abuse on children is unconscionable." UN Human Rights commissioner