The legend of the "burial of ET games" found!

[Shaissa]

Not sure how many people heard about this rumor.... But back in 1983 there was this big video game crash. The game ET for Atari took most of the blame for the crash (although not 100% accurate,) and there was a rumor that Atari buried all the game in a desert in New Mexico.

Well.. it is no longer a rumor. the "ET burial site" has been found!

here is the source if you wanna read it!

http://www.theverge.com/2014/4/26/5...unearth-legendary-cache-of-atari-games-in-new


I find it funny that they actually found it after all these years, I kinda thought it was a hoax.

 

[Big Casino]

No way they actually found that I thought it was just some silly urban legend aswell. I heard that the digging up of it was gunna be some big public event.

 

[Starships]

Wonder if the games would still play or did they look pretty damaged ? Yeah thought that it was a silly hoax too. Makes me wonder what video game urban legends are true as well, and are just well, not discovered yet.

 

[AddleBoy]

Wonder if the games would still play or did they look pretty damaged ?

Hope to god that they can't be played. I heard that hundreds of thousands of children died of misery after playing this game. They don't know what they just unearthed. This will lead to the destruction of humanity!

 

[Starships]

Hope to god that they can't be played. I heard that hundreds of thousands of children died of misery after playing this game. They don't know what they just unearthed. This will lead to the destruction of humanity!

Saw pictures of young kids playing it on Tumblr; they still work

And the kids look completely disgusted while playing too

 

[The Witch]

holy shit


i owe my older brother a fruit roll up

i used to think this was fake as well... can't believe it's real. it's sorta sad to think that's how bad their crash was, though


now no one can tell me atlantis doesn't exist

 

[Starships]

now no one can tell me atlantis doesn't exist

My inner child wants to scream out MERMAIDS right now


The sea is pretty deep

 

[Dionysos]

now no one can tell me atlantis doesn't exist

I fear that Atlantis doesn’t exist, but I'd grown up hoping it did, and that it would be found.

It’s a fictional fallen utopia written about by Plato, featuring in an unfinished literary dialogue depicting a conversation which (like much of Plato) may not ever have happened (or at least might not have resembled the written dialogue itself). The tale itself might perhaps have been inspired by the tales of others, and perhaps even based on an oral recollection of some sort of collapsed civilisation such as perhaps the Minoans at Thera via Egyptian accounts etc (as some people suggest), but regardless of this the basic concept is largely expanded on and fictionalised by Plato, and inserted into a deep, deep, deep antiquity (and set beyond the then-known world - the Pillars of Herakles / Straits of Gibraltar), and is anyway a bit out of place in the Greek mythological landscape, or even the mythological / believed history of Athens at the time. The narrative sticks out somewhat, but it is interesting nonetheless.

I fear that we'll not get any closer to discovering Atlantis than we would have hopes for finding Aristophanes' Cloud-Cuckoo-Land. Or for a more recent and fitting example, it would be like searching for Bioshock’s Rapture.

Though in principle, ancient civilisations covered by water and earth are very real. Who knows what once was? I’m sure Plato didn’t, though, which is my concern regarding his Atlantis.

We can but dream, however.

(/End of tangent)

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For this ET game. I’d heard of this ‘myth’, and thought it had the hallmarks of a hoax. It is fascinating, and slightly hilarious, that it has turned out to be quite true after all.

It does make you wonder whether many other urban legends have some truth to them, as many probably do.

Video game archaeology, who'd have thought it possible? This is an interesting story.