Posted on 04/28/2014 12:59:36 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
... About 200 of residents and game enthusiasts gathered early Saturday in southeastern New Mexico to watch backhoes and bulldozers dig through the concrete-covered landfill in search of up to a million discarded copies of “E.T. The Extraterrestrial” that the game’s maker wanted to hide forever....
The “E.T.” game is among the factors blamed for the decline of Atari and the collapse in the U.S. of a multi-million dollar video game industry that didn’t bounce back for several years.
Tina Amini, deputy editor at gaming website Kotaku, said the game tanked because “it was practically broken.” A recurring flaw, she said, was that the character of the game, the beloved extraterrestrial, would fall into traps that were almost impossible to escape and would appear constantly and unpredictably.
The company produced millions of cartridges, and although sales were not initially bad, the frustrating gameplay prompted an immense amount of returns. “They had produced so many cartridges that were unsold that even if the game was insanely successful I doubt they’d be able to keep up,” Amini says....
(Excerpt) Read more at business.financialpost.com ...
Do you remember Teraserver? It was a Microsoft project, it served up satellite images of the entire US and was a technology demonstration of their ability to create a terabyte sized server farm. It was awe inspiring at the time.
yup.
:’)
Thank you. “This game is giving me more cancer!”
Hey, I remember Terraserver coming online, too, slick stuff back in the day.
Lastly, was farting around streetview and found myself immortalized in a pic, on the 2nd floor porch, beer in hand. Har!
“Was derping around in Walmart 2-3 years back and they had 500GB USB drives on sale for $50! Big name drive but it escapes me, I shoulda bought one but, oh, no... Kick, kick.”
1 terabyte drives are probably going to be there soon.
“Was derping around in Walmart 2-3 years back and they had 500GB USB drives on sale for $50! Big name drive but it escapes me, I shoulda bought one but, oh, no... Kick, kick.”
1 terabyte drives are probably going to be there soon.
WM’s almost there, has Toshiba 1TB for $70.
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