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Showing posts with label Technology games gamers. Show all posts
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Monday, April 28, 2014

ALAMOGORDO, N.M.: Diggers find Atari's E.T. games in landfill | Business | ADN.com

ALAMOGORDO, N.M.: Diggers find Atari's E.T. games in landfill | Business | ADN.comhttp://www.adn.com/2014/04/25/3442598/diggers-ready-to-unearth-ataris.html#emlnl=Morning_Newsletter

"BY JUAN CARLOS LLORCA Associated Press April 25, 2014"

ALAMOGORDO, N.M. — A decades-old urban legend was put to rest Saturday when workers for a documentary film production company recovered "E.T." Atari game cartridges from a heap of garbage buried deep in the New Mexico desert.

The "Atari grave" was, until that moment, a highly debated tale among gaming enthusiasts and other self-described geeks for 30 years. The story claimed that in its death throes, the video game company sent about a dozen truckloads of cartridges of what many call the worst video game ever to be forever hidden in a concrete-covered landfill in southeastern New Mexico.

The search for the cartridges of a game that contributed to the demise of Atari will be featured in an upcoming documentary about the biggest video game company of the early '80s.

As a backhoe scattered a huge scoop of 30-year-old trash and dirt over the sand, the film crew spotted boxes and booklets carrying the Atari logo. Soon after, a game cartridge turned up, then another and another.

Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2014/04/25/3442598/diggers-ready-to-unearth-ataris.html#emlnl=Morning_Newsletter

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Monday, September 17, 2012

Morning Digest: Japanese firms shut China plants, U.S. urges calm in islands row and other news from Reuters

Japanese firms shut China plants, U.S. urges calm in islands row
SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) - Major Japanese firms have shut factories in China and urged expatriate workers on Monday to stay indoors ahead of what could be more angry protests over a territorial dispute that threatens to hurt trade ties between Asia's two biggest economies..
Protests erupt in Afghanistan as Muslim anger over film simmers
KABUL (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters took to the streets of the Afghan capital on Monday, setting fire to cars and shouting "death to America", the latest in demonstrations that have swept the Muslim world against a film mocking the Prophet Mohammad..
Stock index futures signal lower Wall Street open
Stock index futures pointed to a weaker open on Wall Street on Monday, with futures for the S&P 500, the Dow Jones and the Nasdaq 100 falling 0.1 to 0.3 percent..
UK royals ready criminal complaint against photographer
LONDON/DUBLIN (Reuters) - Britain's Prince William and his wife are to make a criminal complaint against the photographer who took topless pictures of the duchess and against the French magazine that published them, their office said on Sunday..
Giants post first win of season as Patriots lose
EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey (Reuters) - New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning threw a career-best 510 yards to lead the reigning Super Bowl champions to their first win of the NFL season on Sunday..
Libya attack victim was a key player in online game
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Online gamers around the world took to the web on Wednesday to mourn the death of Sean Smith, an avid gamer who was one of four Americans killed in a U.S. consulate attack in Libya..
Shuttle Endeavour embarking on new mission to Los Angeles museum
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Sept 16 - The space shuttle Endeavour, built to replace NASA's lost ship Challenger, prepared for a final flight this week, heading not into orbit but west to a Los Angeles museum..
Deaf gerbils hear again with human stem cells
LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have restored hearing to deaf gerbils using human embryonic stem cells in an advance that could eventually help people with an intractable form of deafness caused by nerve damage..
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