After decades of rumors and speculation, the legend has been confirmed

[noisyturtle]

Atari did in fact bury thousands of unsold 2600 ET carts.
http://www.polygon.com/2014/4/26/5656282/atari-et-landfill-new-mexico-found-cartridges

[demik]

now all the hipster will just NEED to own one

[Vibex]

I want to get my hands on one of those. It would be an awesome collectors item.

now all the hipster will just NEED to own one

I guess that makes me a hipster.

[katushkin]

But the part about them making more cartridges than Atari consoles is not true.

It is still pretty cool that they finally found them.

[Lanx]

who actually played these games? i did, w/o internet, w/o a manual, pretty sure my parents bought it in the $1 bin. pretty sure i was 8 or 9 and didn't know wtf was going on, like i played a lot of atari games back then, like yars revenge and defender and you basically figured out what to do.

never mind the horrible graphics, they were all horrible back then, but the gameplay i really didn't understand what was happening. and i played this game for hours (back then we only had so many games, so you pretty much replayed the same game over and over) it truely stood out as the worst childhood game i've ever played, hell i don't think i could even figure it out now with modern game play.

[HipsterPunks]

I want to get my hands on one of those. It would be an awesome collectors item.

now all the hipster will just NEED to own one

I guess that makes me a hipster.

ಠ_ಠ

[smknjoe]

who actually played these games? i did, w/o internet, w/o a manual, pretty sure my parents bought it in the $1 bin. pretty sure i was 8 or 9 and didn't know wtf was going on, like i played a lot of atari games back then, like yars revenge and defender and you basically figured out what to do.

never mind the horrible graphics, they were all horrible back then, but the gameplay i really didn't understand what was happening. and i played this game for hours (back then we only had so many games, so you pretty much replayed the same game over and over) it truely stood out as the worst childhood game i've ever played, hell i don't think i could even figure it out now with modern game play.

One of my friends had this game and it sucked. If we were looking through his game "library" and someone else suggested it (because they had not played it) we would moan and let out an emphatic "NO."

It was crap then and it's crap now.

[lightsout714]

I had an Atari in like 88. It was a hand me down and at this point already pretty old. I remember playing tanks.

[noisyturtle]

who actually played these games? i did, w/o internet, w/o a manual, pretty sure my parents bought it in the $1 bin. pretty sure i was 8 or 9 and didn't know wtf was going on, like i played a lot of atari games back then, like yars revenge and defender and you basically figured out what to do.

never mind the horrible graphics, they were all horrible back then, but the gameplay i really didn't understand what was happening. and i played this game for hours (back then we only had so many games, so you pretty much replayed the same game over and over) it truely stood out as the worst childhood game i've ever played, hell i don't think i could even figure it out now with modern game play.

One of my friends had this game and it sucked. If we were looking through his game "library" and someone else suggested it (because they had not played it) we would moan and let out an emphatic "NO."

It was crap then and it's crap now.

That's what happens when publishers try to push designers to make a game in 5 1/2 weeks so that it's released in time for Christmas. You get something so incredibly bad that it almost kills off an entire industry.

[Lanx]

i'm pretty sure if ET fell in a hole (idk how this happened) you can grow his neck and he floats up. but i think he falls if something doesn't happen, all i remember is getting stuck in a god damn hole with a neck growing ET that shrank at the wrong time.

[piglickjf]

i'm pretty sure if ET fell in a hole (idk how this happened) you can grow his neck and he floats up. but i think he falls if something doesn't happen, all i remember is getting stuck in a god damn hole with a neck growing ET that shrank at the wrong time.

If I recall correctly (and I may not, it's been a looong time), you moved the joystick up to extend his neck and he'd start to float, but after a time his neck would collapse and you'd fall, so you had to release his neck for a second and then re-extend it to keep working your way upwards. That's about the only thing I remember about that game.

[lightsout714]

i'm pretty sure if ET fell in a hole (idk how this happened) you can grow his neck and he floats up. but i think he falls if something doesn't happen, all i remember is getting stuck in a god damn hole with a neck growing ET that shrank at the wrong time.

If I recall correctly (and I may not, it's been a looong time), you moved the joystick up to extend his neck and he'd start to float, but after a time his neck would collapse and you'd fall, so you had to release his neck for a second and then re-extend it to keep working your way upwards. That's about the only thing I remember about that game.

This is sounding familiar.

[jdcarpe]

It's been a while, but I think I remember actually avoiding all the agents and collecting all the pieces to the device to let E.T. phone home. His mother ship comes and picks him up, and the game is over. I think I finished this game.

Now, Kool-Aid Man...I never finished.

[noisyturtle]

It's been a while, but I think I remember actually avoiding all the agents and collecting all the pieces to the device to let E.T. phone home. His mother ship comes and picks him up, and the game is over. I think I finished this game.

Now, Kool-Aid Man...I never finished.

YES oh man, you triggered some buried memory. He's collecting pieces of the phone device from the inexplicable holes that litter this supposed suburban hellscape.

[TheSoulhunter]

Probably the AVGN buried em there to save us!