Atari Charles Posted July 18, 2004 Share Posted July 18, 2004 There has been a lot of discussion on the fate of truckloads of ET and Pac-Man cartridges. Here is the link for an interview with Howard Scott Warsaw himself on this topic and computer generated pictures of the dumping ground. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari Charles Posted July 18, 2004 Author Share Posted July 18, 2004 http://worldzone.net/computers/atari2600du...ds/atari1.shtml Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjk7382 Posted July 19, 2004 Share Posted July 19, 2004 Isn't that the same one from back in February? Or am I missing somethig new Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sku_u Posted July 19, 2004 Share Posted July 19, 2004 When did Atari bury Pacman carts? That's a new one to me. I don't think they even buried the ET carts personally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted July 19, 2004 Share Posted July 19, 2004 Who's Atari? No g-news, is good g-news, with Gary...G-nu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad2600 Posted July 19, 2004 Share Posted July 19, 2004 Honestly, I wish people would stop obsessing over the buried carts. It's in the past. Nothing to see, folks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ANTHONY ATARI Posted July 19, 2004 Share Posted July 19, 2004 Theres something to see If we go out there w/ shovels and dig'm up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad2600 Posted July 19, 2004 Share Posted July 19, 2004 But weren't they covered in CEMENT? You can't dig through cement! Hello? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad2600 Posted July 19, 2004 Share Posted July 19, 2004 But weren't they covered in CEMENT? You can't dig through cement! Hello? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted July 19, 2004 Share Posted July 19, 2004 And even if you managed to hit a correct spot, it would be a bitch trying to insert the game into the console. The fact is the many companies scrap out product that is unsellable (rendering it unusable at the same time). The only reason that it was so much at one time is because Atari's profit margins were dropping like a rock...and needed to eliminate a large portion of overhead pronto. Some have the opinion that they were sold off to be reborn as Beagle Bros. carts. If that were the case, don't you think that one with a partial-ET sticker would have turned up by now?? Those paper labels don't come off so good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atarisales Posted July 19, 2004 Share Posted July 19, 2004 This discussion will keep coming up because we're guys. We are always interested in what is hidden. Case in point - which girl gets asked out the most in a topless bar? The waitress - because she has her clothes on. Get it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimefighter Posted July 19, 2004 Share Posted July 19, 2004 Let's put it this way, unless you get permission to go onto the landfill property, you cannot go out there to dig for those carts, if they're there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonlester Posted July 20, 2004 Share Posted July 20, 2004 I was thinking about this just before I saw it as a forum thread. Sure we'd need permission to dig if they're not buried in cement but I was just thinking of all those carts and EPROM's we could be using... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted July 20, 2004 Share Posted July 20, 2004 I was thinking about this just before I saw it as a forum thread. Sure we'd need permission to dig if they're not buried in cement but I was just thinking of all those carts and EPROM's we could be using... If the story is true' date=' everything was crushed: http://www.snopes.com/business/market/atari.asp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hatster Posted July 21, 2004 Share Posted July 21, 2004 I tend to believe Howard Scott Warshaw when he says that if such a thing was happening, he'd have heard it on the grape vine (and been there to get his picture taken on top of the pile). I would want to dig up that NY Times article and see who wrote it and what else he had written. Anyway, I've known Howard for 30 some odd years and he tends to be frighteningly right most of the time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Other TJ Posted July 21, 2004 Share Posted July 21, 2004 ...The only reason that it was so much at one time is because Atari's profit margins were dropping like a rock...and needed to eliminate a large portion of overhead pronto... Destroying inventory wouldn't reduce overhead, nor would it increase profit margins...though it might have decreased the embarassment factor of a flagship new title selling for peanuts! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Tomlin Posted July 21, 2004 Share Posted July 21, 2004 Some businesses have to pay taxes based on the value of what they have in stock at the end of the year. Sometimes it's cheaper to write off unsaleable stuff rather than have to pay taxes on it. This is why car dealers tend to have sales toward the end of December. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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