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Some times it's better to let the past stay buried....

GadgetmanGadgetman Posts: 2,436
edited 2013-06-04 16:54 in General Discussion
Yeah, a movie company has gotten permission to root around and dig up what should never have been created in the first place... The Atari E.T Game...

http://www.krqe.com/dpp/news/southeast/alamogordo-approves-atari-excavation

Comments

  • RobotWorkshopRobotWorkshop Posts: 2,307
    edited 2013-06-03 14:01
    That reminds me of the legend of Atari dumping most of their I, Robot arcade games over the side of a ship into the ocean.
  • Oldbitcollector (Jeff)Oldbitcollector (Jeff) Posts: 8,091
    edited 2013-06-04 07:30
  • prof_brainoprof_braino Posts: 4,313
    edited 2013-06-04 16:21
    Its funny, at nearly every job somebody in management talks about "market realities" and pushes that we cut corners, skip process, and get the stuff out the door before its ready, in order to meet some arbitrary calendar deadline. And as always, the market reality is that if had waited until the work was actually done, things would not have gone so badly.

    I wonder why this is such a hard leasson to learn?
  • NWCCTVNWCCTV Posts: 3,629
    edited 2013-06-04 16:54
    Atari obviously did not have any kids working with them to do any pre testing!!! Not sure what they were thinking, that looked less interesting than Pong!!!!
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