Hi Jeremy,
Lol! The numbers keep getting worse. I did some research and the website I consulted said 2,000,000 games produced and 100,000 buried. Now you are saying 5,000,000 produced and 1,500,000 dumped in a landfill. I'd say it has to be the largest flop in history. :D
However, it can not be denied it probably was the beginning of the end for Atari. there was the video game sales crash of 83, and I recall Atari went bankrupt in 84. Its no wonder they bit the dust when you see the figures of how bad E.T. and some of the other games flopped.
On 5/22/2012 10:45 AM, Jeremy Kaldobsky wrote:
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. :)
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