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[Drone223]

Looks like the myth about the burial is true.

 

http://www.gamespot....d/1100-6419235/

[The Love Runner]

YES!! E.T. PHONE HOME!!

[Dovahzeymahlkey]

Some things should remain buried...

[Liamv2]

Really?

[SwobyJ]

Pfft still a myth. *covers eyes* *covers ears*

[TheClonesLegacy]

They shoulda stayed buried.

Who knows what kind of licensing curse that hath been unleashed onto Earth.

[Jordan]

I didn't even know it was considered a myth, to be honest.

[Raizo]

I didn't even know it was considered a myth, to be honest.

I've heard the story many times and I even believed it but there is something about about seeing the proof about it that still blows my mind.

[Druk-Qs]

It was considered a myth just because of how outlandish it is on paper, but I had read that some of the people working for the company at the time were the ones spreading the story, so I always assumed it was true. Still interesting seeing it, however.

[Eternal Phoenix]

I believed it. It didn't sound too far fetched and it's nothing new under the sun but IMO they should have stay buried. If I was M$, I'd make a spin-off show where a team of scientists investigate different ways to destroy the cartridges. That should be their new fate: destruction.

[Lunch Box1912]

Billions of years from now space faring creatures will find earth…. This is the legacy they will find…

 

[NekkidNones]

I'm just going to hope that the real incentive behind finding the worst game ever made, was either to serve as a reminder to current publishing houses what can happen when you rush software development. Or that there are an army of Microsoft employees that are into retro gaming, and they actually want the original consoles and joysticks replacement parts.
Something like people that rebuild classic cars, but now its the Atari instead.

[metatheurgist]

It was considered a myth just because of how outlandish it is on paper,

I'm not sure why people continue to assume that massive business screw-ups are hard to believe. We practically get financial crashes on a regular schedule now. OTOH, science is constantly challenged.

[Druk-Qs]

I'm not sure why people continue to assume that massive business screw-ups are hard to believe. We practically get financial crashes on a regular schedule now. OTOH, science is constantly challenged.

Financial failure isn't outlandish - What's outlandish is that as opposed to simply stopping production of a product and hope what's left can turn some type of profit, they instead choose to bury all that's left on a desert in hopes no one will be able to find it again. Basically there's no reason to do something like that out of anything but pure shame - And a once multimillionaire company, shying away in shame like this? Doesn't that sound at least a little crazy?

[metatheurgist]

Financial failure isn't outlandish - What's outlandish is that as opposed to simply stopping production of a product and hope what's left can turn some type of profit, they instead choose to bury all that's left on a desert in hopes no one will be able to find it again. Basically there's no reason to do something like that out of anything but pure shame - And a once multimillionaire company, shying away in shame like this? Doesn't that sound at least a little crazy?

Maybe I'm jaded but that just sounds like Standard Operating Procedure to me.

It costs money to store stuff in warehouses (rent/insurance/power) so it doesn't make sense to hold onto stuff that doesn't turn a profit. Again you can't just put it on a shelf since that's taking up space for stuff that may actually sell and turn a profit. For a company the sensible thing to do is in fact to write it off and stick it in a landfill (that's how f'd up business is). The socially responsible thing to do might have been to recycle the parts or give the units to schools or charities but that costs $$$.

[Jordan]

I wonder if there are coyotes around that area corrupted by the taint.

[FlyingSquirrel]

They should have tried to levitate the cartridges out, just to see if they all immediately fell right back in.

[wolfsite]

I heard that they actually want to get these games graded.......... because money.

[The Love Runner]

I heard that they actually want to get these games graded.......... because money.

Won't be long now before one shows up on Pawn Stars...

[superdeathdealer14]

They dug 'em up and now they should put them back into the ground.