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| RayB:
For free? Watch it. It opens up with the fairly ridiculous question that's supposed to be the great mystery behind the entire documentary: WHY on earth would they dump working merchandise into a landfill!?!? OH NOES! The simple answer, and we knew this before, is for the tax write-off. But they don't ever say that. They hold the line that it's this great mystery. Anyways... But overall it's fairly meh, with only a couple new / interesting tidbits mixed in (which are SO interesting, I can't even remember them now). They never mention over-producing a ---smurfy--- Pac-Man and all the other mistakes that lead to Atari's downfall. It's all ET ET ET taking the blame and them trying to say it wasn't such a bad game. |
| pbj:
Went ahead and watched this last night. RayB pretty much nails it. I find the argument that ET isn't a terrible game to be laughable and the "five weeks, bro, five weeks!" argument doesn't impress me much. Whatever helps Howard sleep in his crummy apartment at night, I suppose. Was also quite amused that we get 80 minutes of build up and then maybe 5 minutes of footage of what they actually pulled out. Considering as that dig was one of the main points of the documentary, where was the "two weeks later, here's what we found" followup? |
| behrmr:
--- Quote from: pbj on April 17, 2015, 10:28:13 am ---Went ahead and watched this last night. RayB pretty much nails it. I find the argument that ET isn't a terrible game to be laughable and the "five weeks, bro, five weeks!" argument doesn't impress me much. Whatever helps Howard sleep in his crummy apartment at night, I suppose. Was also quite amused that we get 80 minutes of build up and then maybe 5 minutes of footage of what they actually pulled out. Considering as that dig was one of the main points of the documentary, where was the "two weeks later, here's what we found" followup? --- End quote --- I'm sure the local gov't, the owners of the stuff from the dig, didn't want what was dug up fully disclosed as part of the deal. Because then you'd see 10,000 cartridges and they wouldn't be "rare" anymore and therefore more worthless. |
| BadMouth:
I agree it's lame that they didn't show much of what was found. It gave me the impression that they didn't really find much. Maybe it was a few boxes rather than the tens of thousands of cartridges. |
| RayB:
Here's what happened after: CASH GRAB! |
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