Way back in 1983, over four decades ago now, Atari was in a bind. They mistakenly bet on the future of the gaming market in the worst way possible. They produced too many games for their console; some estimate they produced MORE copies of Pac-Man than they had sold units of the console itself. Talk about a bad bet. The rumor was proven true in 2014 when crews dug up the long-buried games. Approximately 700,000 total cartridges were buried including E.T. Now you can bury them again in Burying E.T. for the Atari 2600, playable in a browser or if you have the means, on your Atari 2600 console.
Read the rest of my article here - https://hive.blog/hive-140217/@triverse/imagine-you-are-atari-in-1983-as-you-play-burying-e-t
Grab Burying ET here - https://florentdeloison.itch.io/burying-et
00:00If you're a fan of Atari, and you probably already know about the great landfill mystery that Atari denied for years from back in the 80s, but it was proven through in 2014.
00:11If you're not aware, Atari tried to bury, you know, hide, get rid of, dispose of, whatever for tax purposes, I'm sure.
00:18Plenty of copies of E.T. Combat, you know, Pac-Man, various Atari games that were just not selling.
00:24Well, as gamers are, and those that are prolific in programming, will do, sometimes trolling happens, and that's what we have here.
00:36Uh, Burying E.T. by Floret Deloison on itch.io has just made the, well, the game available in, on physical format for Atari 2600 with a cartridge and a box available for purchase now.
00:59And it will run you, as of this, uh, as of this video, it'll run you about 60 dollars, 60 euros.
01:06So, keep that in mind. I'm not sure what the conversion rate is. Uh, there's plenty of websites that, uh, that'll help you with that.
01:13But, uh, if you're not familiar with Burying E.T., it's basically very, very similar to, well, E.T.
01:21There's three pits on the screen. You can't fall in them. These are landfall pits.
01:25Your job is to drive a bulldozer or an earth mover, whatever you want to call it, and push the carts into the pit.
01:31Now, considering you're driving a vehicle, and this is Atari, then there's got to be a simple way to, you know, produce some kind of, uh, challenge here.
01:41Well, that's, I call it a fuel gauge in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen.
01:45Um, and, randomly, there will be fuel cans that pop up that you can, like, and, you know, obviously extend your time to keep playing.
01:52Eventually, you will lose, and your high score is how many Atari carts you are able to push back into the pits.
01:58Sounds simple. It's quite a bit, it is actually quite a bit of fun.
02:01But, if you've ever played combat, particularly the, uh, tank mode, then you know how frustrating it can be to get, to think you've cleared a corner,
02:11only to find out that the game says, no, you did not clear the corner, and then you get frustrated, and you end up losing the round and everything.
02:17Well, that's alive and well in Burying E.T.
02:19You either love it or you hate it.
02:21For people that want to, you know, troll Atari in their own little way, check out Burying E.T.
02:28It's a fun little, just, easy romp, good 10-15 minutes of entertainment, you know, here and there.
02:36Check it out. Head over to H.io. Link's in the description below to grab your copy.
02:40Now, while you're there, drop a comment and let the developer know what you think of this.
02:44You know, let them know, you know, if you think this is funny or not.
02:47Personally, I think it is.
02:49And, so, anyways, check it out. It's free to download.
02:53You can put it on, put the bin file on a, if you have the hardware, like a Harmony Drive or something,
02:57you can play this on an actual Atari 2600, you can play it in the browser,
03:01or you can just play the bin file in an emulator.
