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[sbr]

http://www.theverge.com/2014/4/26/5656288/construction-workers-unearth-legendary-cache-of-atari-games-in-new

They found the mythical mass grave of Atari gear, including the ET cartridges.

According to urban legend, a massive stockpile of Atari gear — including truckloads of the notoriously awful game E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial — has laid buried in a New Mexico landfill for over thirty years. Today, that story is no longer a myth. Construction crews have uncovered copies of the Atari 2600 game at a landfill deep in the New Mexico desert, near the city of Alamogordo.

Back during the so-called video game crash of 1983, a struggling Atari was stuck with truckloads of the game and other unsold hardware. With little recourse and a crashing interest in video games in North America, the company decided to dump its excess merchandise into a landfill, according to reports at the time. The story was never confirmed, however, and it's carried on as a legendary tale from a time when video games were near worthless. It reportedly cost Atari millions to get the rights to produce a video game tie-in to the incredibly successful Steven Spielberg film, but the resulting E.T. game was a massive flop and it's considered one of the worst titles of all time.

Today's dig became a reality thanks to an upcoming documentary, produced by Microsoft's Xbox Entertainment Studios. The documentary, which will focus on the changing landscape of the video game industry, is expected to come out next year, and it is part of a broader push by Microsoft to produce original video content for Xbox 360 and Xbox One owners. Its biggest project is a live-action Halo TV series connected to Steven Spielberg.

[Ed Anger]

I played that goddamn game. Leave 'me buried. They knew what they was doing.

[mongers]

Breaking News:

Now confirmed as a fact, Hell IS other people. 

[Admiral Yi]

Today's dig became a reality thanks to an upcoming documentary, produced by Microsoft's Xbox Entertainment Studios.

Nyah, nyah, nyah.   

[Threviel]

That's true - but sometimes it's still nice to go to a Cinnabon instead (though it's rare; they're in distant parts of town for me).

When you absolutely, positively need to get diabetes by the end of the week. 

Maybe I'm jsut looking at this from my point of view. CC gave me a bunch of grief when I posted that in Europe my go to place is Subway, with some trips to McDonalds (which I don't visit in the US). But I doubt I'd ever go to a Dunkin Donuts.

It depends on where you are, I guess. But for fifteen to twenty Euros you can get a good meal and drink at a non-fastfood place like 7Sternbräu or Salmbräu or one of the smaller family owned restaurants off the main paths (like where I took RH). If you like it more posh you can expect around 50 Euros at a place like Plachutta.

But spicy is right - donuts are mostly a niche product, so I guess DD is banking on filling that niche.

Heh, my wife used to work at Salmbräu.

[alfred russel]

Good NASCAR race tonight.  Four cars already caught fire.  Could we make it five? 

Let the record show that this was your second post after protesting being called a sociopath.   

[Liep]

It turns out that the assassination attempt on Hedegaard was real.

No witnesses, the attacker supposedly missed with a pistol from 1 meter away and was then overmanned by the 70 year old Hedegaard only to escape in broad daylight unseen by anyone else.

Why is this news now ?

Has there been any developments, I can't find anything on internet news searches.

They arrested the attacker in Turkey.

[CountDeMoney]

during the so-called video game crash of 1983

"So-called"?  Was this assfuck clown even alive then?  There was nothing "so-called" about it.
That's what, 3 years later, I just laughed when Dad said to get into game software programming. What the fuck for?  That was like going into BetaMax.

[mongers]

It turns out that the assassination attempt on Hedegaard was real.

No witnesses, the attacker supposedly missed with a pistol from 1 meter away and was then overmanned by the 70 year old Hedegaard only to escape in broad daylight unseen by anyone else.

Why is this news now ?

Has there been any developments, I can't find anything on internet news searches.

They arrested the attacker in Turkey.

Thanks, couldn't find an english language link to any recent news stories, I thought you might be implying the guy had made it up. 

[Syt]

[Josephus]

Wouldn't want to be there during the zombie apocalypse.

[Razgovory]

I played that goddamn game. Leave 'me buried. They knew what they was doing.

Yeah, I have a copy of it.

[Savonarola]

My wife and I went to Vero Beach yesterday.  She had some things to return to Soma so I tagged along with her.  The shop had an advertisement with a lingerie model in just her bra and panties on it and read "Mother's Day is May 11."  Happy Mother's Day, Jocasta, I got you something special...

Anyway it made me think of this classic by Tom Lehrer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mScdJURKGWM&feature=kp

[MadImmortalMan]

I played that goddamn game. Leave 'me buried. They knew what they was doing.

Yeah, I have a copy of it.

Code Monkeys did an episode about that.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xrga9g_code-monkeys-s01e02-et-sys_shortfilms

[CountDeMoney]

That was an atrocious game.  I remember my friend Michael got a copy of it, we were all jazzed to play it and after about 30 minutes, we put Defender back in.