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Found dumping Atari games
Few remember, but 30 years ago in the west of the video game industry has experienced very nonweak crisis. In connection with the entry of a huge number of very cheap gaming crafts, a variety of different set-top boxes is not rife with strong ruler and other external economic factors, Igroprom quite lost in the price. The shares of leading companies fell, losses grew faster than weeds on the lawn in front of the office.
Of course, under the distribution fell Atari, which then dominated the almost limitless market for home consoles. According to some reports, it accounted for about 80% of the market. Under the influence of the crisis Atari had to go to extreme measures. Quarterly reports have shown reduction in profits of 50%, and it was urgent to get rid of the mountains already printed, but not sales.
Atari has taken out several dozens of trucks, according to some estimates, about a million unsold cartridges with games at the very dump hoping to crush and bury forever unsold goods, and later to secure the burial was covered with concrete.
And here is the information a little bit at odds. History states that it has not been buried realized cartridges, while Atari assured itself in those years, had been brought to the dump if only the faulty products and residues from the factory in El Paso, which just closed.
This story has become an urban legend for 30 years, and only now the team has received enthusiastic permission to conduct excavations and "uncover" the truth. So far only been found cartridges with ET, but is rumored to have a total heap and turn the console Atari 2600 cartridges with games Pac-Man, Defender, Bezerk and other games, as well as personal computers.
Now excavation continues, they will be released based on the documentary, which will be available exclusively to owners of consoles Xbox.
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Source: ageofgeeks.com
Of course, under the distribution fell Atari, which then dominated the almost limitless market for home consoles. According to some reports, it accounted for about 80% of the market. Under the influence of the crisis Atari had to go to extreme measures. Quarterly reports have shown reduction in profits of 50%, and it was urgent to get rid of the mountains already printed, but not sales.
Atari has taken out several dozens of trucks, according to some estimates, about a million unsold cartridges with games at the very dump hoping to crush and bury forever unsold goods, and later to secure the burial was covered with concrete.
And here is the information a little bit at odds. History states that it has not been buried realized cartridges, while Atari assured itself in those years, had been brought to the dump if only the faulty products and residues from the factory in El Paso, which just closed.
This story has become an urban legend for 30 years, and only now the team has received enthusiastic permission to conduct excavations and "uncover" the truth. So far only been found cartridges with ET, but is rumored to have a total heap and turn the console Atari 2600 cartridges with games Pac-Man, Defender, Bezerk and other games, as well as personal computers.
Now excavation continues, they will be released based on the documentary, which will be available exclusively to owners of consoles Xbox.
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Source: ageofgeeks.com
