Is it true that in September of 1983, Atari buried five million copies of its E.T. video game somewhere because it was so horrible and wouldn't sell?
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(http://www.snopes.com/business/market/atari.asp) follow the link
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It wasn't just the E.T. game, but a number of game cartridges that Atari was disposing of in a landfill in New Mexico. The dumping is usually linked to the failure of the E.T. game.
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That's funny. I vaguely remember it.
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They sure did. It was the worst selling game of all time at one point.
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The reason for this was the cost to keep the games in storage when they wouldn't be sold [or sold at a huge loss] just wasn't worth it. Hence, the destruction.
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Man I know nothing about this but I spent countless hours playing that Atari ET Game. I loved it. ET would fall down pits and levitate back up, or smell flowers to regenerate when he was wounded. The goal of the game was to build a phone from missing pieces so that you could eventually "phone home." I thought that game was so cool. But then again I thought most Atari games were neat, including Yars Revenge and Missile Command.
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Yeah man wouldnt you bury something you didnt like?...
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