I knew it wasn't a myth

[lovetoread]

According to urban legend, a massive stockpile of Atari gear — including truckloads of the notoriously awful game E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial — has laid buried in a New Mexico landfill for over thirty years. Today, that story is no longer a myth. Construction crews have uncovered copies of the Atari 2600 game at a landfill deep in the New Mexico desert, near the city of Alamogordo.

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

 

[lovetoread]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BmK4ITJIAAAIuOz.jpg

 

[lovetoread]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BmK77NNIcAAQ33b.jpg

 

[islandman]

You're some kind of super-geek.

 

[snugglestruggle]

*having flashbacks...shivers*

 

[lovetoread]

For the record, I am not a geek.

:angelwings:

 

[Sean Renaud]

Every gamer knew that was true. We should all take a moment to thank James Rolfe for making this day happen.

Also that game is terribad. Like I'm convinced that twelve monkeys would put out a better product in the same amount of time bad.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

I am hoping, that it is all true.... (Hearts must be dancing, at the thought of it.)

 

[lovetoread]

I just think its funny that it was a Microsoft backed excavation that found them.

 

[warrior queen]

This may spark a revival of the game.
Kinda like clubs that get together to watch the worst movies of all time (Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, etc).
Gamer-geeks who kept their original Atari sets in bidding wars on ebay for these 'vintage' games.

 

[Skiddles2014]

When I was a kid I saved like $300 from my paper route to buy an Atari 2600.

When the ET game came out I got it, it sucked.

 

[snugglestruggle]

You know this could be a plot for a really bad movie. Throw in some microfilm and some really buff looking guys.

I wonder if they will find a Timex sinclair in the hole?

 

[Disgustipated]

I was an intellivision kid.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

I was an intellivision kid.

One friend had that, another had ColecoVision and I had both the 2600 and 5200. Played the FUCK outta all them shits. Mostly Joust, Defender and Robotron.

 

[Disgustipated]

One friend had that, another had ColecoVision and I had both the 2600 and 5200. Played the FUCK outta all them shits. Mostly Joust, Defender and Robotron.

Coleco was dope for Donkey Kong.

 

[Sean Renaud]

One friend had that, another had ColecoVision and I had both the 2600 and 5200. Played the FUCK outta all them shits. Mostly Joust, Defender and Robotron.

Joust. Man. I love dinosaurs. That game however filled me with rage against that fucking pterosaur. Fuck him and his mouth that I must penetrate with my lance. FUCK HIM I say.

I put in serious hours on Ms.Pacman which ironically has people flipping out whenever we find a pizza place that still has one of those set up. Apparently I'm a fucking beast compared to most mortals on that shit.

I wonder who owns the rights to Joust. That and a game called Falcons Revenge that I loved sound like the kinds of things that people would forget to renew the rights too. (Course considering Universal forgot to renew on fucking King Kong I guess how valuable something is doesn't necessary mean someone remembers to get the paperwork done.)

 

[lovetoread]

I was a frogger gal.

 

[Skiddles2014]

I was an intellivision kid.

My friend Salman had intellivision, I loved the baseball.

 

[Sean Renaud]

I was a frogger gal.

The idea that you like jumping on logs and have an epic tongue is somehow not surprising.

 

[Disgustipated]

My friend Salman had intellivision, I loved the baseball.

Yep, that was good too.

 

[Spenser41]

Too funny. I remember that horrible game.

 

[Que]

My Video game playing prowess reached its zenith at Defender. I retired as Champion.

 

[islandman]

I fucking loved the arcade version of Joust.

I was horrible at it, but, if I close my eyes and think of the game, I can still hear the flapping of those damn birds in my head.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Qix and Tempest were my joints.

http://www.shockinglyfun.com/game_images/thumbnails/1160101708_qix.gif

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8d/Qixingame.png http://www.arcade-museum.com/images/118/11812421558.png

http://www.gametrailers.com/side-mission/files/2012/06/tempest.gif

http://www.zektor.com/zvg/images/cpics/large/tempest1.gif

http://www.mameworld.info/mameinfo/movies/NightOfTheComet-7.jpg

Qix was a deceptively simple area-capture game and Tempest was a geometric arena vector-graphics shoot 'em up. Oh, how I loooooooved these games. There was nothing like them when they came out and their play still holds up to this day. Bought the home system cartridge versions and played the damn fuck outta those, too.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Qix was my first Gameboy Game and thus has a special place in my heart. I've never actually played Tempest but my father speaks highly of it and honestly him speaking of a video game means it must be. . .well at least as good as Paperboy which I admit has it's charm. Don't know why people would play it in a world that had Donkey Kong and Centipede but hey.