I was going to bring up this same story! Nice one Dark! :D Atari's ET game was labeled as the worst game ever made by a handful of big name video game magazines. When I heard the story about the excess games it was that the company had ordered 5 million copies and only sold 1.5 million. The extras were dumped in a landfill in New Mexico. The incredible flop of this game is famous because it marked the beginning of the end for the giant Atari company and is directly blamed for the 1983 crash of video game sales.
For every game there is a fan though. :) > Actually there are graphical retro > remakes of a large number of games with film licenses, > including starwars, batman and indiana jones. > > of course, these are all free. Probably if you wanted to > make a commercial game things could get quite sticky > financially. > > Btw, I've never played the eT! game myself, but there is an > amusing urban myth about it. > > The company who produced the game expected it to sell > through the roof, so made 100000 copies. However, because > (as Tom said), it was such a generic and easy game and > generally not too well put together, less than 10000 copies > were sold. > > So, what to do with the other 80000 or so coppies? > > Apparently, they were taken out to a disused cquarry > somewhere in the desert in nevada and berried! > > I love the thought of some future archaeologist finding > 80000 copies of the eT game. "hmmmm, was this a votive > offering to the frog god of the 20th century?" :D. > > Of course, this is an urban myth and so likely might not be > true, but it's an amusing thought even so. > > Beware the grue! > > Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
