The legends were true: Atari did dump E.T.

[Sebby19]

They've dug up the landfill, and they have so far found hundreds of E.T. cartridges (among other tech junk).

Discuss!

[ano0maly]

Link please!

[pholtos]

Here's one story on it.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/27/tech/gami ... ideo-game/

[Bwarch]

How can you have a thread on this and not include the pictures.







I'm ESPECIALLY disappointed in you Pholtos! FOR SHAAAAAME.

As for the actual event, it's truly marvelous that this has been done.

Talk has been flying about, people are especially wondering if Atari can get in trouble for this, be it from general litter or even tax avoidance.

As WELL, the hot topic is the AVGN's movie, which is on this very topic! There was a film crew at the dig site, but it's believed to be from Microsoft, not the AVGN. Whether this dig throws a wrench into the AVGN Movie's story is to be seen, so far as I know.

[pholtos]

As someone incessantly lazy, a link is the best I can do.

[Sebby19]

As for me, posting from my 3DS.
I will have more thought provoking comments later, but for now, good night.

[Bwarch]

There's posting from mobile, and then there's posting from 3DS.

Truly, there is no greater hell than the 3DS for typing.

[Ivy]

Truly, there is no greater hell than the 3DS for typing.

Or anything involving web browsing. The 3DS was definitely not optimized for internet purposes.

[Ashan]

I'd rather post on an ET cartridge than use the 3DS for anything other than playing a game.

[Maiku Wotaharu]

I wonder if they found any "Raiders of the Lost Ark" cartridges as well. I hated that game...

[darkychao]

who cares

[Bwarch]

Apparently somebody because we've got like seven users in the thread besides you.

What a dumb thing to say in-thread.

[Maiku Wotaharu]

LMAO @ the avatar that popped up!

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[Bwarch]

Let's just be honest here most of my avatars work for expressing disgust.

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[ano0maly]

For one thing, I'm happy that Warshaw (game designer) is enjoying this.

[Bwarch]

haha, if you make a game with as much of a reputation as E.T. one would hope you'd have one heck of a good sense of humor about it. Glad to hear he's in on this in some way.

[TheFinalSentinel]

Happened on my dad's birthday too. Two things to celebrate that day. =D
Double your pleasure, double your fun. Wrigley's Doublecelebration Gum.

[Sebby19]

The guy who made E.T. had made some fantastic stuff for Atari before, he was given only 5 weeks to make this atrocity.

As for what I think, I'm glad this legend turned out to be true. Now this can be one of those things that will be featured in textbooks for Video Game History.
Seriously though, I prefer this outcome to the alternative: A hoaky myth by those video game nerds... I feel this legitimatizes us somehow.

And why is everyone harping on me using the 3DS. It's functional for internet stuff in bed at 11PM. And I don't have a mobile phone. In case you're wondering, I'm using my Wii U right now.

[TheFinalSentinel]

And why is everyone harping on me using the 3DS. It's functional for internet stuff in bed at 11PM. And I don't have a mobile phone. In case you're wondering, I'm using my Wii U right now.

Yeah, before the Wii U came out I would spend a bunch of time just laying in bed browsing random interwebs and reading bad fan fiction on my 3DS.

But true, it is a pretty crappy web browser.

[Bwarch]

Whut.

Nobody is harping on you dude we're trashing the system itself and how bad the web browser is. Nothing on you whatsoever~

[Ashan]

I feel kinda bad for ET, but I knew from the beginning their relationship wouldn't work out. I've heard Atari is a slut anyway. ET can do way better than her.

[InsaneIntentions1]

I gotta phone home about this