The Sword and Laser discussion

"Archaeology is the search for fact… not truth.
If it’s truth you’re looking for, Dr. Tyree’s philosophy class is right down the hall."
-Dr. Henry Jones, Jr., PhD

Ready Player One author, Ernest Cline is going on a quest. A quest to uncover the facts of a 30 year old legend involving a landfill and the worst video game in history. Read more details from Cline himself...

Raiders of the Lost Atari Graveyard

Go to google images and search for:
Atari breakout
Wait two seconds

Love that man

Bookshelf wrote: "Go to google images and search for:
Atari breakout
Wait two seconds"

haha. nice.

Is this dig by any chance inspired by the Angry Video Game Nerd movie?

One of the most infamous urban legends in video games has turned out to be true.
http://kotaku.com/e-t-found-in-new-me...
http://iurl.no/i1837

I still don't get this. Why?

terpkristin wrote: "I still don't get this. Why?"
Semi serious-
a.The people who grew up in the 1980s' really seem to be into their "Good old days"
b. Typical weekend news- Live converge from an Arizona land fill.
Some good stuff probably happened in the 80s.
I can't think of anything at the moment but it'll come to me.

terpkristin wrote: "I still don't get this. Why?"

It is one of the big urban myths in gaming, except that it is true. ET the game was horrid and Atari buried a bunch that they could not sell or were returned in a tax write off.

It is a little like big foot being real to the game world.

I prefer to think that the guys who organized this documentary went out last year and buried the ET cartridges to ensure they found it on their "dig." :P

terpkristin wrote: "I prefer to think that the guys who organized this documentary went out last year and buried the ET cartridges to ensure they found it on their "dig." :P"
Well the dig did up some copies of defender
http://www.virtualatari.org/soft.php?...
I found that part kind of hard to believe.

Cline's follow-up blog post-

The Dig has been Dug! What did we find inside the Lost Ark? [Dated- 1 May 2014]

A complete waste of time

Joust http://www.free80sarcade.com/joust.php
Zork http://www.web-adventures.org/cgi-bin...
Black Dragon http://www.kongregate.com/games/argon...
Atari adventure http://www.simmphonic.com/programming...