gaming history music video

[guyjin]

neat video. But it was staged; the buried carts were (almost certainly) crushed to make room for more of them, so there is little chance that they would find playable copies, much less with intact cases and labels.

also, they were probably mixed in with the 5 million copies of Pac-man that didn't sell, and some other crap.

[ParanoiaDragon]

Ha, I at first thought you said buried cats!

[Hobo Xiphas]

I am really tired of all this E.T. is the worst game ever.  It is getting really old.  It is not the worst game ever.

And isn't the whole buried cartridges thing a myth?  I believe Atari just reused the unwanted carts for other games.

[nectarsis]

There was just an article IIRC on Yaho bebunking some urban legends...The E.T. story is supposedly proven.

[Joe Redifer]

Wouldn't the carts have been buried in their boxes/full packaging material?  It's not like they were burying used carts, just unsold ones.  And I think they would be deeper than 1 foot underground. 

[guyjin]

In the process of producing a cartridge, the packaging usually comes last; it's cheap and easy to produce quickly. plastic shells and circuit boards take longer.

also, snopes sayeth it is so: http://www.snopes.com/business/market/atari.asp

[Joe Redifer]

The "nearly all of them came back" line indicates they were packaged and boxed.

[guyjin]

you're right, of course. 

[Joe Redifer]

 ***revels in own overinflated ego***