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| Ond:
--- Quote from: bobbyb13 on March 05, 2021, 01:24:22 am --- --- Quote from: Ond on March 03, 2021, 05:48:06 pm ---erhm yeah...but no, they still had to dig around for it. It wasn't just lying there. Not millions though. Where did all those cartridges end up though? They sure did make plenty of them...that didn't sell. --- End quote --- One of them wound up at my house. That game was so bad and frustrating I remember that my sister and I thought maybe the joysticks were failing. Of course by the time we had the disappointment of Pac-Man for the 2600 it was obvious that a lot of games were going to just suck pond water compared to real arcade machines. --- End quote --- And yet the 2600 was hot stuff when I was a kid. I never was lucky enough to have one so I spent time at friends houses who did have it. To comment on the actual doco Howard mentioned. I like it, it has a nice feel mixing interviews with cool shots of diorama's of scenes of Nintendo workers. The background story of Nintendo pre toy company era is detailed and shows the gradual transition into video games. Failed attempts by the company to branch into..of all things a taxi service, a radio station and 'Love Hotels'. Good stuff. |
| pbj:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on March 05, 2021, 01:00:08 am ---I never heard the rumor that millions were dumped there and quite frankly I would laugh anyone out of the room that tried to say that they did. I heard "a truckload" and considering how long and how deep they were allowed to dig yeah... that's about right. --- End quote --- https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/five-million-et-pieces/ That was the version I heard in summer 1999. :cheers: |
| Ond:
--- Quote from: pbj on March 06, 2021, 09:45:06 pm --- --- Quote from: Howard_Casto on March 05, 2021, 01:00:08 am ---I never heard the rumor that millions were dumped there and quite frankly I would laugh anyone out of the room that tried to say that they did. I heard "a truckload" and considering how long and how deep they were allowed to dig yeah... that's about right. --- End quote --- https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/five-million-et-pieces/ That was the version I heard in summer 1999. :cheers: --- End quote --- and there is the answer to my question of where the actual unsold cartridges all went - "While Atari did bury some millions of units of unsold game cartridge overstock, that (publicized) action took place near the company’s headquarters in California, not in New Mexico". digging in the wrong spot ... :lol |
| bobbyb13:
Apparently it is part of a series?! Watched it with the boy, learned a few fun facts actually. The people who made it get bonus points for having one of the original Nintendo USA guys playing DK on somebody's MAME cab! >:D |
| Howard_Casto:
Yeah that was cringeworthy. The cab was like 4 feet wide with a hideous franken panel and they didn't even bother to fix the aspect ratio of donky kong before filming. This is why we get on to people that make that ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---, so Howard Phillips doesn't cry. ;) |
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