http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22766511
Ever wondered about those old carts now you might get some answers.
On a far away planet reading your posts in the year 10,191.
This came up on BoingBoing a few days ago.
http://boingboing.net/2013/06/01/legendary-at … ridge-dump.html
Relevant comment:
Rob, this whole thing is a non-issue publicity stunt. We already cleared that up in our book "Atari Inc. - Business Is Fun" released last fall, going by direct interviews and actual internal documents.
There were never thousands of ET games buried in Alamogordo, that's a myth that sprung up later and was also never once mentioned by the actual press articles of the time. The dump there was simply a clearing out of Atari's Texas manufacturing plant as it transitioned to automated production methods and a focus on personal computer manufacturing. It had previously been one of the main plants for manufacturing of game cartridges and other hardware, and game manufacturing was being moved overseas to China.
As part of the transition the unused cartridge stock of a group of titles (not just E.T.), console parts and computer parts were all dumped there in New Mexico. It was covered in detail by the Alamogordo press at the time, and is just such a non-mystery that I'm surprised by all this.
Marty Goldberg is one of the most respected people in the Atari fan community today. His word is pretty much gospel when it comes to knowledge of the old Atari corporation and it's products.
I also don't see how they can excavate anything. The rumor has it that the whole dump site was capped with concrete after the dump was done to prevent people trying to dig anything up.
Wait... Marty Goldberg! He presided over classicgaming.com during its decline many years ago. Just what has he been up to?
wrote:Wait... Marty Goldberg! He presided over classicgaming.com during its decline many years ago. Just what has he been up to?
He hangs out over at AtariAge.com a lot now.
