(I did a search for this being mentioned on our site after I typed up the following, and I see that I missed this posting a year ago.)Originally Posted by kup
This is a couple of days old now but for those who are yet to hear the news - The ancient gaming burial site has finally been found:
It is big news as for many years this site has been shadowed in myth and legend. Some said it existed while others said it was just tales old gamers tell. Well it is now confirmed as Fact.
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/g...428-zr0dj.html
http://au.ign.com/videos/2014/04/27/...ntent=16156649
A music video and the upcoming AVGN Movie are actually based on this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Rt_3_bQVJU
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ang...Game_Nerd#Film
I personally would love to own one of those formally burried ET games. I would never clean the dirt off it and keep it on display
There was a great documentary on SBS last night, and I hope it is repeated again for people to look out for.
It was called "Atari: Game Over", and focused on the sudden collapse of Atari at the end of 1983, and blaming the collapse on the ET game... which had the myth of being buried in a rubbish dump in September of that year.
The mythical burial site was eventually found, but in reality, very few copies of the game were found in the dump site.
I was also under the impression that the game was never released, and all the cartridges were disposed of in this mythical dump site. However, the game was indeed released, with about a million copies made, so I'm confused as to why it was such a rare game that people had spent the last thirty years wanting to dig up this burial site just to own the game.
It was very informative for giving an in-depth history of Atari, from its start to its end... with the doco ending with the unearthing of thousands of squashed Atari games and consoles, witnessed by hundreds of faithful followers/fans.
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