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This one is a beaten down subject. MS funded a whole movie around the game and the burial site in New Mexico.
I have the game. Yeah this story has worn thin. Magazines in the 90s never shut up about it. AVGN based his movie around it. MS did a documentary. 1 million YT vids over the years. It's kinda done as a subject.
The E.T. story is much like the Kennedy Assassination. It'll never be over.
Sorry the choice of subject matter is worn been on everybody but I found it interesting and always have. Perhaps you will enjoy my next video better.
I didn't know that Spielburg had requested Howard Scott Warshaw to create the game, so that was the 1st time I'd heard about that. The video was still entertaining.Quote:
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The topic is one of intrigue regardless of the number of discussions. It is fascinatingly insane.Quote:
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Well the video was put together in an interesting and entertaining way (personally I think you drag out your words too long, a slightly faster speech pattern might help with the pacing ;) ). But yeah, the subject matter has been talked to death; also, saying that ET killed Atari is a gross oversimplification considering the bad decisions and management issues Atari had gone through in the years before - and also the fact that Atari still managed to stick around for years after that in one way or another. The game might've been the final nail in the coffin that buried Atari's dominance in the console market, but the computer division at least still remained significant well into the 90s, and the Atari games brand still was a household name for decades (yeah I know, I'm being pedantic - call it a vocational disease of mine :p )Quote:
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You’ll find that word pacing is different for each region. People up in Montana and parts of Canada talk very fast. They often made fun of people in the South for being slow, because of their word pacing. I remember a guy from Canada (here in Texas) saying “they ripped a layer of skin from my back that was 1 foot wide and 2 inches deep” so quickly, that it took a second for me to process what he had said.
For years people thought that the stories of Atari burying thousands of copies of the game in a landfill site was an urban legend. Turns out it was true after all. Makes you wonder what other urban legends are true.