I would totally watch that, and I haven't watched Mythbusters since they ran out of real myths to test/detonate, and became "movie stunt plausibility testers."kajinking said:
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial Dump Faces Excavation
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I thought it wasn't a "dump" as much as they smashed all the cartidges up with a steamroller before they dumped them and the pieces went to separate landfill sites.
There is a rebuttal on the original article that claims the issue was already resolved in a book published last year - http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/0985597402
There is a rebuttal on the original article that claims the issue was already resolved in a book published last year - http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/0985597402
Eh, never played it and don't know how bad the game itself was, but I do know that what made it so infamous is the fact that it was a gigantic financial flop. Atari didn't just assume it would be good, they assumed it would be great. They thought the game was going to be selling consoles. They made more cartridges for the game than there were consoles sold at the time, and when sales time came... well... the rest is history.Evil Smurf said:
From what I understand, the game also has/had a game-killing bug where no matter what you do, you can't continue because you fall through a single-pixel-wide slit in the ground, with no way around it.Lancer873 said:
That's reason enough to put the quietus on sales.
Ouch, yeah, that'd do it. I still think that the reason it's so infamous is more because of the financial flop. It would have just died the typical lonely video game death of obscurity were it not for the sheer financial backing that was put towards it. We know of its horrible gameplay so well because it was one of the two games credited with causing the video game crash, not necessarily just because of its terribadness.frizzlebyte said:
I always felt Daikatana's source code should have been interred along with every retail copy in similar fashion. John Romero's live interment optional.
One should not open Pandora's box so willingly. seems convenient that they are digging this up now when people are talking about how the game industry is going to crash at any moment. maybe E.T is something similar to the four horsemen of the game crash followed by Superman 64 and some two other god-why-did-this-exist-awful games.
This sounds like a bad idea. Plus, I do enjoy the legend. Maybe people will gather them up and sell them. It'd be pretty cool to have a crushed shell of a game that was so horrible it was buried in the desert for thirty years. In fact, yeah I'd buy that for $5.
However this also brings to mind something like this:
However this also brings to mind something like this:
I'm predicting a Pirates of the Caribbean style curse on the team the excavates them, doomed to be undead until all the copies are returned, and the blood repaid.
Ah, dandy! Yes, please unbind/dig up/uncover/reveal/excavate/insert-your-verb-of-choice-here the Forgotten and Buried Harbinger of Doom from Ages Past. Everyone can confirm that nothing bad will ever come of it. By all means continue.
/grabs popcorn
/grabs popcorn
My parents actually bought me this game for my Atari back in the day. Even as a huge ET fan, and a gamer kid, it quickly fell into the untouched pile, and remained there. Yes... its terrible.Evil Smurf said:
"Stinker of biblical proportions" had me rolling.
The ET game is the gaming culture equivalent of Native Americans. The burial place is a sacred place where few may treck and none may dig up. They are making a potentially costly mistake by unleashing this blight upon the country. We know not what they will find, but it can bring nothing but pain.GonzoGamer said:
If those some of those cartridges are still in working condition, I vote we have all the "Mass Effect 3 is the worst game ever" guys be forced to play this game for 72 hours.
I really hope that they find it so that I can settle that argument with my friends about it being real.
I really hope that they find it so that I can settle that argument with my friends about it being real.
I played the game when I was a kid, but I thought it was just me -- and my friends -- who sucked at the game. Only later did I find out the true story of the game that could not be played...
I think excavating the games is a good thing. We should have the bits re-assembled. Some should be in the Smithsonian's video game museum as performance art. IMO, the game should be sitting on the desk of every game industry executive as a reminder: There are levels of crap we are not willing to accept.
I'd love to have included a few bits of crushed E.T. cartridges in the box along with my RRODed 360 when I sent it back to Microsoft. I'd pay to have a throne constructed out of the failed game parts. On it I would sit cardboard cutouts of the folks who most need the reminding. I would sit there myself whenever I make a decision against quality and in favor of fast money.
"This has all happened before, and will happen again," indeed.
I think excavating the games is a good thing. We should have the bits re-assembled. Some should be in the Smithsonian's video game museum as performance art. IMO, the game should be sitting on the desk of every game industry executive as a reminder: There are levels of crap we are not willing to accept.
I'd love to have included a few bits of crushed E.T. cartridges in the box along with my RRODed 360 when I sent it back to Microsoft. I'd pay to have a throne constructed out of the failed game parts. On it I would sit cardboard cutouts of the folks who most need the reminding. I would sit there myself whenever I make a decision against quality and in favor of fast money.
"This has all happened before, and will happen again," indeed.
Dig up all the copies, convert them into Xbox One exclusives, showcase at E3 for Xbone, featuring high tech Kinect hardware.
Man, what a nightmare.
Man, what a nightmare.