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| Infamous E.T. Cartride Burial Being Excavated |
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| jobocan:
Logic dictates it's an urban legend. If they got a bunch of returned/unsold cartridges, they wouldn't just throw them away, they'd disassemble them and keep anything that can be re-used. Cartridge shells, probably the circuit boards/chips or at least part of those, and they'd likely either trash or recycle the boxes and manuals and plastic, and keep any useful inserts. I mean, Atari 7800 cartridge shells are just Atari 2600 cartridge shells, I'd wager a large amount of those came from E.T. cartridges. What the excavators are likely to find is broken console/controller/game parts (since it was obviously very common to throw those away), but a mountain of complete sealed copies of E.T.? Not happening. |
| doctorlaudanum:
--- Quote from: jobocan on June 01, 2013, 10:53:42 pm ---Logic dictates it's an urban legend. If they got a bunch of returned/unsold cartridges, they wouldn't just throw them away, they'd disassemble them and keep anything that can be re-used. Cartridge shells, probably the circuit boards/chips or at least part of those, and they'd likely either trash or recycle the boxes and manuals and plastic, and keep any useful inserts. I mean, Atari 7800 cartridge shells are just Atari 2600 cartridge shells, I'd wager a large amount of those came from E.T. cartridges. --- End quote --- Pretty much this. I always thought this sounded more than a little ridiculous, and incredibly wasteful. Nonetheless, I am a bit curious to see where this will go. Thanks for sharing! |
| htimreimer:
--- Quote from: jobocan on June 01, 2013, 10:53:42 pm ---Logic dictates it's an urban legend. If they got a bunch of returned/unsold cartridges, they wouldn't just throw them away, they'd disassemble them and keep anything that can be re-used. Cartridge shells, probably the circuit boards/chips or at least part of those, and they'd likely either trash or recycle the boxes and manuals and plastic, and keep any useful inserts. I mean, Atari 7800 cartridge shells are just Atari 2600 cartridge shells, I'd wager a large amount of those came from E.T. cartridges. What the excavators are likely to find is broken console/controller/game parts (since it was obviously very common to throw those away), but a mountain of complete sealed copies of E.T.? Not happening. --- End quote --- one thing did heard was that the original atari company had some sketchy business practices and this was one of them |
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