Nintendo *did* descend from heaven and improve on Pitfall, which no one else was up to.
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Nintendo *did* descend from heaven and improve on Pitfall, which no one else was up to.
I was thinking about this last night and I realized that, well, a documentary is the perfect place to blow up these established legends. I hope the producers are interested in more than just re-telling the same old stories.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoZeedeater
Here's a good example of just how bad it was for Atari, and their dumping of product.
http://www.atarimuseum.com/articles/burials.html
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You've got some Balls!!! Atari contacted a local dealer to see if they would be interested in purchasing a "Large Quantity" of Atari 5200 trakballs for several hundred dollars. Upon arriving at Atari's main warehouse, the dealer frantically called his partner to come inspect the Trakballs. Upon arriving the partner examined a tall 8 foot high palette of trakballs and explained that between the two of them with their trucks they could manage to haul their load back to the store. It wasn't until they went around to the side of the Atari warehouse and found 6 semi-tractor trailers filled with almost 18,000 Atari 5200 trakballs that they knew just how deep in trouble they were!!!! Atari however was gracious enough to allow them the use of the tractor-trailers to move their inventory back to the store. After the store was filled, they proceeded to the partners home where they filled his entire backyard from ground to gutter with Atari 5200 Trakballs. Over the course of the summer the business partner disassembled nearly 11,000 brand new trakballs, disposed of the cartons, recycled the plastics, sold the optical assemblies, bearings and cords for surplus and the best of all.... sold the balls themselves at swap-meets as cue balls and for gear shifter knobs!!!! Man, that's a lotta balls!!!!
That's just sad.....
at least it got used or recycled.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...-auctioned-off
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As reported by Reuters, the Alamogordo City Council voted seven-to-zero in favour of auctioning the discarded cartridges, which are currently being held by the Tularosa Basin Historical Society and stored at the New Mexico Museum of Space History in Alamogordo.
We should start seeing auctions for the carts beginning in about two weeks on eBay and the council's website.
The city council has decided to auction off about 800 of the games found in the city landfill.
That's really smart. If I felt any nostalgic connection at all to Atari, ET (gross), or pre-NES videogames I would buy one.
What I'm saying is they should find the secret Dinowarz: Destruction of Spondylus landfill.
Lol at the idea they will recoup their cost at 800 units. Are there really 800 people that would pay big for these or are they doing this for the public good and good faith?
Retro Gaming people are IDIOTS. They will make a good bit of coin on this.
Two days ago, I sold a CIB ET for $30.
ET.
$30.
(granted it was Gem mint 10 VGA 99+, but still.)
Put them up for auction in a little $8 frame with a little $1 etched brass plate "Unearthed Landfill Atari ET Cartridge" and you can make $200 a pop on 'em, easy. Especially if there's a little dirt on it.
It's not what you're sellin', it's how you sell it.