“Every time I see Atari: Game Over, I get emotional”.
Today marks the 40th anniversary of Atari dumping millions of unsold games in the Alamogordo desert, New Mexico.
In an event once considered little more than an urban myth, Atari drove several semi-trailer truckloads of unsold stock from its El Pasa storage facility to a nearby landfill. What was dumped included copies of E.T. (a game that is deemed by many to have been so poor it is often blamed for Atari’s struggles), Pac-Man and several other Atari 2600 titles. The company had been enduring issues with unsold stock after producing more cartridges than it could sell, triggering what is known in the United States as the video game crash 1983.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
“Every time I see Atari: Game Over, I get emotional”.
Today marks the 40th anniversary of Atari dumping millions of unsold games in the Alamogordo desert, New Mexico.
In an event once considered little more than an urban myth, Atari drove several semi-trailer truckloads of unsold stock from its El Pasa storage facility to a nearby landfill. What was dumped included copies of E.T. (a game that is deemed by many to have been so poor it is often blamed for Atari’s struggles), Pac-Man and several other Atari 2600 titles. The company had been enduring issues with unsold stock after producing more cartridges than it could sell, triggering what is known in the United States as the video game crash 1983.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
