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Sep 13, 2023 · With E.T. blazing a path in theaters, Atari paid $22 million for the privilege to turn 1982’s massive hit into a video game smash. The company’s previous efforts adapting Raiders of the Lost ...
May 1, 2014 · "E.T. was the death of Atari." If you believe the urban legend, then that game, based on Steven Spielberg's blockbuster movie, is the sole reason Atari flopped in the 1980s. As the myth went, the ...
Jan 19, 2015 · Legendary game designer Howard Scott Warshaw talks to us about creating the E.T. videogame in just five weeks, Atari's collapse, and more. In the early 1980s, the Atari 2600 dominated the American ...
Jul 15, 2022 · July 15, 2022 - 3:30PM. The crash of the entire video gaming industry in 1983 is often blamed on the failure of one game alone. A game which cost gaming giant Atari millions in licensing fees and ...
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Dec 22, 2021 · Atari's self-inflicted wounds led to its death. With a bad reputation and a market inundated with poor and sometimes offensive products, Atari, and with it the entire gaming industry, collapsed. According to the New York Times, Atari lost an incredible $310.5 million in the second quarter of 1983.
The Atari video game burial was a mass burial of unsold video game cartridges, consoles, and computers in a New Mexico landfill site undertaken by the American video game and home computer company Atari, Inc. in 1983. Before 2014, the goods buried were rumored to be unsold copies of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), one of the largest ...
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Oct 10, 2020 · Atari’s 1982 ‘E.T.’ game was so disastrous it’s been blamed for the company’s downfall and the crash of the entire industry. The man responsible for the game, however, has taken it surprisingly well. In 1982, Shannon was 7 years old. Back then, she loved two things above all else: video games and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.
