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Geek Culture / E.T. Finally Found

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Kevin Picone
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Posted: 28th Apr 2014 07:22
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http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/games/et-atari-games-uncovered-in-new-mexico-landfill-20140428-zr0dj.html




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Phaelax
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Posted: 28th Apr 2014 19:22
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They look in decent shape considering they've been buried for 30 years. I wonder if they'll sell the copies

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Posted: 28th Apr 2014 19:54
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I see snopes has updated its page on the topic. Pretty sure it said "false" before now.
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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 28th Apr 2014 20:01
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Yeah, I think it said false, too.

Why on earth is now "Legend" instead of "True", though? Legend implies they still have doubts...

I mean sure, it's probably not 5 million copies that are buried there, but it's still true that Atari did in fact go and dump a whole bunch of their crap into a landfill. I'm kind of surprised nobody is getting in trouble for not taking the proper route and going and recycling it.


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Barry Pythagoras
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Posted: 28th Apr 2014 20:20
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I'm surprised that Atari never thought about Ebay.
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easter bunny
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Posted: 29th Apr 2014 06:20
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haha, Looks like Snopes don't want anybody to know when they're wrong
Every single Snopes page is excluded from the wayback machine


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Posted: 29th Apr 2014 06:30
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@aster bunny: Snopes is run by the US government. Just sayin'.
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Kevin Picone
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Posted: 29th Apr 2014 07:26 Edited at: 29th Apr 2014 07:32
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Quote: "I'm kind of surprised nobody is getting in trouble for not taking the proper route and going and recycling it"


This was the 80's, so it's unlikely they'd even heard of recycling.

CD's manufacturers still dump bogus stock into landfill. What a shame, as an original Rick Ashley cd would probably sell alright now.


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Posted: 4th May 2014 19:42 Edited at: 4th May 2014 19:43
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Now they just need to find a landfill filled with buried Bubsy 3D games.

(skip to final 3rd)

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Posted: 4th May 2014 20:38
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Word has it that Microsoft found them while searching for a place to bury unsold copies of windows 8, surface tablets and xbox ones

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