My Letter To Atari

[povlok1]

Just for fun I browsed over to Atari.com wondering if it talked about the history of Atari at all.. welp nope;( they just want the name obviously.. so just for fun.. I decided to write a letter.. I will post the reply if they send one;)

 

 

Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 02:33:29 -0800 (PST)

From: Add to Address Book

Subject: E.T.

To: [email protected]

 

 

 

 

Hi.. I was wondering if you still sold copies of ET

for the 2600? My copy finally wore out and I just

about had that dude with the long neck out of that

hole. Tnks:)

 

__________________________________

[Happy_Dude]

LMAO Should have asked where the ET landfill is

[povlok1]

that will be my follow up question when they tell me they no longer sell it;)..

[Cootster]

There is no burial ground . . . The makers of the Beagle Bros. carts bought a large chunk (probably not all) of these carts for next to nothing . . .

 

Besides, Povlok, what if they do try to sell you one?

[Sylentwulf]

There is no burial ground . . . The makers of the Beagle Bros. carts bought a large chunk (probably not all) of these carts for next to nothing . . .

 

Besides, Povlok, what if they do try to sell you one?

 

Then you could honestly claim, you bought THE last Atari 2600 game cart that the atari corporation ever sold

[space_invader]

 

Besides, Povlok, what if they do try to sell you one?

 

that would be some great customer service

[NovaXpress]

The next letter should ask how to find the secret room in Adventure. If someone sends you back the correct answer then French Atari (or "Freedom Atari" if you will) will be officially cool.

[ATARIPITBULL]

Ask them where the hell is Airworld and to send me the T-shirt!!!

 

[Bryan]

My guess is that the reader of your message will have little or no idea what you're talking about. Maybe you'll get some Infogrames stuff out of it, though.

 

-Bry

[povlok1]

My guess is that the reader of your message will have little or no idea what you're talking about. Maybe you'll get some Infogrames stuff out of it, though.

 

   -Bry

 

Im just hoping they send somthing;) even a form letter, but a 'go screw yourself' letter would be hillarious

[NovaXpress]

I'm still waiting for Mattel to honor my Aquarius claim I sent in last year.

[sku_u]

My guess is that the reader of your message will have little or no idea what you're talking about. Maybe you'll get some Infogrames stuff out of it, though.

 

   -Bry

 

Im just hoping they send somthing;) even a form letter, but a 'go screw yourself' letter would be hillarious

 

Take one of the warranty cards for on old title, fill it out, put a new address label over the old Atari customer service address and send it to them, or put it in an envelope if it needs to be sent internationally.

 

I think we should all start doing that and see what they do (if anything). It'd be hilarious if all of a sudden, they started receiving tons of warranty cards for the original games.

[CPUWIZ]

My guess is that the reader of your message will have little or no idea what you're talking about. Maybe you'll get some Infogrames stuff out of it, though.

 

   -Bry

 

Im just hoping they send somthing;) even a form letter, but a 'go screw yourself' letter would be hillarious

 

Take one of the warranty cards for on old title, fill it out, put a new address label over the old Atari customer service address and send it to them, or put it in an envelope if it needs to be sent internationally.

 

I think we should all start doing that and see what they do (if anything). It'd be hilarious if all of a sudden, they started receiving tons of warranty cards for the original games.

 

LOL, I am gonna give it a shot.

[bjk7382]

I sent an email to Purina a while ago asking for old Chase the Chuckwagon cartriges, and they politely got back to me and told me that it ended a long time ago.

 

I think I also sent an email to Activision asking for patches. and they again said no....

[Bryan]

I sent an email to Purina a while ago asking for old Chase the Chuckwagon cartriges, and they politely got back to me and told me that it ended a long time ago.

 

We have a crate of them here we're clearancing out at $1 each. How many would you like?

 

-Bry

[rockman_x_2002]

My guess is that the reader of your message will have little or no idea what you're talking about. Maybe you'll get some Infogrames stuff out of it, though.

 

   -Bry

 

Im just hoping they send somthing;) even a form letter, but a 'go screw yourself' letter would be hillarious

 

Take one of the warranty cards for on old title, fill it out, put a new address label over the old Atari customer service address and send it to them, or put it in an envelope if it needs to be sent internationally.

 

I think we should all start doing that and see what they do (if anything). It'd be hilarious if all of a sudden, they started receiving tons of warranty cards for the original games.

 

I'll go you one even better than that! I have an old warranty card, crisp and new, for an Atari 7800. Fill that one out and send it in.

[NovaXpress]

I think I also sent an email to Activision asking for patches. and they again said no....

Yah, ask them to send you promotional items for games they stopped selling 20 years ago and they actually said no? They deserve dersisve eye-rolling smileys for that crime!

 

This is all funny, but no one really expects companies to still honor old warranties and promotions do they?

[sku_u]

I think I also sent an email to Activision asking for patches. and they again said no....

Yah, ask them to send you promotional items for games they stopped selling 20 years ago and they actually said no? They deserve dersisve eye-rolling smileys for that crime!

 

This is all funny, but no one really expects companies to still honor old warranties and promotions do they?

 

I think everyone would be shocked if any of these companies did.

[bjk7382]

This is all funny, but no one really expects companies to still honor old warranties and promotions do they?

 

NO. But it only takes 30 seconds to send an email so why they hell not. You have to keep those customer service people on their toes

[JB]

I think I also sent an email to Activision asking for patches. and they again said no....

Yah, ask them to send you promotional items for games they stopped selling 20 years ago and they actually said no? They deserve dersisve eye-rolling smileys for that crime!

 

This is all funny, but no one really expects companies to still honor old warranties and promotions do they?

 

I think everyone would be shocked if any of these companies did.

I'd be a lot more likely to buy their products, if for no other reason then they've demonstrated a very very good sense of humor.

[Cootster]

Hhhmmm . . .

 

Maybe we should ask that Christian publisher if they have any old Music Machine bundles lying around . . . Odd that they didn't continue in games, at least for computers, since they've become a rather large book and music distributor . . .

 

Or write Amiga and ask how to make the Joyboard work on one of their workstations, or better yet, the A500.

 

But no, what I would do, and this would require a CIB cart (preferably a common-as-muck one) and a Wal-Mart receipt:

 

Try and return one for the original asking price. I've seen them take old, muddy tools and worn lingerie back, so I'm sure they'd take a CIB E. T.

[cimerians]

Storytime:

 

Hmmm....if I remember correctly around 1989 I called Coleco and told them my power supply went dead, I wanted another one. The lady on the phone had no clue what I was talking about and then when I mentioned Videogames she said something like, "We don't have those anymore. They are long gone."

 

Sometime after the crash (1984) I mailed an old warranty card to CBS electronics and in the comments section, I asked if I could get another copy of Wizard of Wor since mine broke.

 

 

 

never got a response on that one....

[Cootster]

From what I understand, that Coleco customer service number is actually owned by a user group, so you'd probably get better service now.

[Curt Vendel]

Wasn't it bought by ecoleco? They bought out like almost all of Coleco's old stock. I've heard the occassional bad deal with them, butI bought from their site 2-3 times and the equipment was mint in the box and in perfect condition, so I have no qualms.

 

 

 

Curt

[Lost Monkey]

Hi.. I was wondering if you still sold copies of ET

for the 2600? My copy finally wore out and I just

about had that dude with the long neck out of that

hole. Tnks:)

 

Sorry! We do not have any copies of ET for the 2600, but there is still time to pick up a copy of "The Matrix" for XBOX, Gamecube and PS2 before it ends up in a New Mexico landfill.  Thanks!