Buried Atari E.T. Games Unearthed

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Originally Posted by Low

Haven't checked out the vid, they mention why Major Nelson is where?

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Originally Posted by haohmaru

Some things should just stay buried...

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This 100%.

Seems there's a lot more myth to this than truth:

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Originally Posted by Marty Goldberg

Jim Heller, the person in charge of the original dumping for Atari and shown in the pic posted earlier in this group, verified how many games were actually buried in Alamogordo in this interview. 728,000. So much for millions of ETs. Also verified by people on site: The Centipede shown on news sites everywhere sitting on the table next to the first recovered ET has a Target price sticker on it, further verifying another thing we were recently told: All the games from El Paso were actually returns/overstock from stores, something that was talked about happening at the time that Atari had never dealt with before.

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I'm surprised they didn't find a shitload of PAC-MAN carts.

THE WORST VERSION

Another good reason for video games to become strictly digital in the future. Less waste.

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

I am an ET apologist. It's not a terrible game, it's just not as easy to understand as a lot of Atari games. It's not a great game either, but I had fun with it as a kid.

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There are a bunch of issues in ET that make it far worse than it really should be. Chief among them is that ET's whole sprite is used for pit collisions. This makes moving him around the environment far more frustrating than it should be, and also directly causes the notorious fell-back-into-a-pit-you-just-left loop. It's far from the worst game ever as it stands, but I think it could have actually been good with just a few modifications.

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Originally Posted by Yoshi

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Sick burn.

I bet it would actually make some money if they put it up alongside the documentary. Throw in a dipswitch to fix the more grievous bullshit, $$$

Apparently the upcoming Angry Videogame Nerd movie currently in post-production features a plot centered around digging up the ET carts in the desert. What timing for them.