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« on: January 29, 2008, 03:50:07 PM »
The E.T. landfill, Donkey/Monkey Kong... I'm sure most here won't find anything new here. There are links to a couple Atari commercials that are pretty good. One is for Activision Ice Hockey starring Phil Hartman.

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« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2008, 04:06:35 PM »
I had no idea about the Atari games buried in New Mexico :O Should've given them to me instead of wasting all these games though..
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« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2008, 05:45:46 PM »
That Activision commercial is scary. Good article also. Thanks for the link.
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« Reply #3 on: January 29, 2008, 06:34:26 PM »
Not only is the Polybius story a good video game urban legend, but it's a great urban legend period.  Thanks for the link!
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« Reply #4 on: January 30, 2008, 02:00:26 AM »
Anything that mentions Polybius gets a thumbs up from me.
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« Reply #5 on: January 30, 2008, 08:40:50 AM »
I enjoyed that classic commercial.
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« Reply #6 on: January 30, 2008, 08:21:55 PM »
They forgot the one that states that Captain Falcon is the Chuck Norris of Smash Bros. Fact or Fiction? Fact.

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« Reply #7 on: January 30, 2008, 09:03:57 PM »
Is the one about the Atari carts really Fact though?

It doesn't seem like they provide a lot of proof as to why it is considered fact about from a Newspaper saying it was.
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« Reply #8 on: January 31, 2008, 05:05:55 PM »
It's been the subject of some controversy, but from what I remember it is true.  Atari themselves even came out and said that they buried the carts, but they said that all of them were defective.
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« Reply #9 on: February 01, 2008, 06:36:43 AM »
I already knew about the Sony Nintendo partnership. But the dates don't seem right on there, I mean Nintendo & Sony planning the CD addon for the SNES in the 80s? The SNES didn't even come out until the 90s.
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« Reply #10 on: February 01, 2008, 08:10:26 AM »
Quote from: Cobra on February 01, 2008, 06:36:43 AM
I already knew about the Sony Nintendo partnership. But the dates don't seem right on there, I mean Nintendo & Sony planning the CD addon for the SNES in the 80s? The SNES didn't even come out until the 90s.

But the SNES does have the expansion port on the bottom. I often wondered what it was for, probably for the planned CD add-on.
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