Who believes in the atari landfill?

[Rik]

It just doesnt make sense to me.Why didnt Atari salvage the parts.They could made a mint from the plastic casings,and other things.They could've sold of the plastic and made a hefty profit, better than burying it and losing everything.Stuff was recylced back then just like today.If they did bury it all,it was a damn huge f%$%in waste AFAIC.Just my thought on it.

[moycon]

I believe Atari buried some junk in the landfill, maybe even a pallet of games. Then they wrote off millions.

Makes perfect sense for a company who was for the first time, in deep financial trouble.

Like the mayor of Alamagordo at the time it happened stated when he heard the story, he thought Atari was "cooking the books"

 

Indeed.

 

Do I believe in the landfill? Absolutely.

Do I believe atari buried millions of E.T. carts? No way.

 

Just looks around at how plentiful E.T. carts are. They didn't get to be in so many peoples collections by being buried in a landfill.

[CV Gus]

Ever hear the old saying, "where there's smoke, there's fire?"

 

Given the boneheaded things we KNOW Atari (often by order of Warner Communications) did back in those days, why would it be difficult to believe the landfill story? "Out of sight, out of mind," those idiot CEOs likely figured.

 

Look at E.T. They rushed it out in six weeks, so it was a guaranteed failure. They wanted millions more copies than there were known Atari 2600 users! AND...

 

It was late 1982, for crying out loud- when the ColecoVision and their own 5200 were out!

 

Incidently, one of my video game magazines from those days reported this, and even had a photo of a crate of games. There were a number of people there, and security to make sure nobody grabbed anything, although it was more likely people wanted to toss their copies in with the rest...

Edited June 6, 2009 by CV Gus

[27ace27]

bump!

[Frizo]

Of course I do! who doesnt?

E.T.... deserved it

Pac-man, Not that much...

oh well, that was then...