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Diggers find Atari's E.T. games in landfill
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| JUAN CARLOS LLORCA
Posted on 04/26/2014 2:41:04 PM PDT by BenLurkin
ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (AP) A documentary film production company has found buried in a New Mexico landfill hundreds of the Atari "E.T." game cartridges that some call the worst video game ever made.
Film director Zak Penn showed one "E.T." cartridge retrieved from the site and said that hundreds more were found in the mounds of trash and dirt scooped by a backhoe.
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A New York Times article from Sept. 28, 1983, says 14 truckloads of discarded game cartridges and computer equipment were dumped on the site. An Atari spokesman quoted in the story said the games came from its plant in El Paso, Texas, some 80 miles south of Alamogordo.
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Alamogordo Mayor Susie Galea said finding something in the landfill might bring more tourists to this city in southeastern New Mexico...
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TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: alamogordo; atari; landfill; what
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posted on
04/26/2014 2:41:04 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Landfills aren't eyesores, they're archaeological treasures for future generations.
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posted on
04/26/2014 2:42:45 PM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: Yo-Yo
Same could be said for Detroit.
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posted on
04/26/2014 2:51:16 PM PDT
by
Yorlik803
( Church/Caboose in 2016)
To: BenLurkin
Some things are best left buried. They can’t even imagine the magnitude of frustration and disappointment locked in those cartridges. If it were to escape... I don’t even want to think about it.
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posted on
04/26/2014 2:52:21 PM PDT
by
ArcadeQuarters
("Immigration Reform" is Ballot Stuffing)
To: BenLurkin
Worst game ever? There's some pretty tough competition.
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posted on
04/26/2014 2:52:59 PM PDT
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: BenLurkin
All your landfills are belong to us.
To: billorites
Yes, "worst" is a relative term...
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posted on
04/26/2014 3:00:00 PM PDT
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: BenLurkin
I threw that crap away for a reason.
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posted on
04/26/2014 3:06:18 PM PDT
by
Delta 21
(Its my freedom. YES. I will be keeping it.)
To: BenLurkin
Interesting history regarding Atari. They were the ones that came out that that "Pong" game which ended up being the first video game brought into people's homes. It was basically a two-player game in which you controlled a paddle that went up and down and you batted a "ball" back and forth. That was basically it. Yet it was all the rage back in the mid 1970s. You hooked it up to a regular television set and played it for hours on end.
Then around 1975, the co-founders of Apple (before they started Apple) wrote a game called "Breakout." Legend has it that Steve Jobs got $5,700 for it but only paid Steve Wozniak (who did all the work) about $350.
To: SamAdams76
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posted on
04/26/2014 3:18:23 PM PDT
by
Chickensoup
(Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
To: Chickensoup
Skyrim it ain’t, but it still is a lot of fun even today.
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posted on
04/26/2014 3:22:59 PM PDT
by
Norm Lenhart
(How's that 'lesser evil' workin' out for ya?)
To: Yorlik803
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posted on
04/26/2014 3:23:35 PM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: Norm Lenhart
I was too poor to afford it back then but would play it when we got to town and to Zayres.
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posted on
04/26/2014 3:26:01 PM PDT
by
Chickensoup
(Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
To: Chickensoup
loved PONG.People today can't realize how state of the art it was at the time. My first computer was an Atari 64. Had a VisiCalc program to track my bills and wrote or was given programs to do graphics. Right up there with geting my TI-50.
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posted on
04/26/2014 3:33:43 PM PDT
by
Starstruck
(If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
To: Starstruck
A friend was the wife of one of the authors of VisiCalc.
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posted on
04/26/2014 3:43:12 PM PDT
by
Chickensoup
(Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
To: SamAdams76
Pong was all we had, and dammit!! We liked it!
:-)
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posted on
04/26/2014 4:00:11 PM PDT
by
KosmicKitty
(WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
To: Chickensoup
I loved Downland (TRS-80)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
04/26/2014 4:20:58 PM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
(The 0baMao Experiment: Abject Failure)
To: SamAdams76
Pong was a good game, as was tank.
Atari’s chess program would shut off the display while it was thinking (presumably so it could use all its computing power for play and not display).
I used to set up a board so I could examine the position as Atari was contemplating its next move.
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posted on
04/26/2014 4:42:44 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: Starstruck
Atari didnt make the 64..that was Commodore...Ataris first pc were the 400 and 800..I had an 800..the game system was the 2600
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posted on
04/26/2014 5:49:43 PM PDT
by
tophat9000
(Are we headed to a Cracker Slacker War?)
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