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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It’s so cool they finally found them.
You are correct. Your memory is better than mine. It was actually the 800XL which I believe had 64K of memory.
A friend was the wife of one of the authors of VisiCalc.
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VisiCalc was one of IBM’s greatest blunders ... they didn’t see the potential in it (thought it was too “obvious”) and never copyrited it!!!!! So along come dozens of copycats ,, foxbase dbase excel etc. etc. ,,, BILLIONS of dollars lost.
In college I ran the print shop for the school. It was in the basement of the student union across the hall from the Rathskeller.
They stored their video game consoles in the print shop. Pong was one and I forget the other. They had room for one game so the extra one was stored in my print shop.
Needless to say when the printing was done it was time for fun and that meant...PONG!
Did you think you'd ever hear that name again?
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