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What Do You Do With 1 Million Atari Games?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-that-is-simply-mad dept.

gr8fulnded sent us a CNet story that will knock your socks of: this guy has over a million unopened Atari 2600 and 7800 games sitting in a limestone mine-turned warehouse for sale for a bug a cardtridge. If you still have a machine, check it out (at a buck a cartridge, its quite the deal). Or else you could get the cartridge and make your emulator legal! (michael: Bill Kendrick sent us the proper device on which to play these carts: a 2600/Nomad combination.)

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  1. Re:Old Games are more dangerous than new games. by R1chard+Gere · · Score: 5

    Someone should warn them of the potential pitfalls.

    Excellent choice of words... ;)

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  2. Beating a dead horse by plopez · · Score: 5

    Only a bug a piece? Having written about a million bugs, I could probably afford all of them....

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  3. I have a cockroach. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5

    Its a really big one. Can I get two games?

  4. Re:Only a bug per game? Sweet! by hedgefrog · · Score: 5

    I've got Windows2000, could I buy 65,000 games ?

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  5. The Atari Landfill, and the hidden shrine... by smirkleton · · Score: 5
    They didn't bury the cartidges in Arizona- they're in a landfill in Alamorgordo, New Mexico.

    There is a small but rather impressive shrine built on top of tomb #4, with an eternal flame burning bronze effigies of Tod Frye and Howard Scott Warsaw.

    Etched on the Warsaw bust, the words that Warsaw said to Steven Spielberg during the short development cycle of E.T., "Steven, this game is going to make your movie famous."

    And etched on the Frye bust, the words that Rick Mauer said to Tod Frye after hearing of his $1,000,000 paycheck for PacMan, "You ought to put a photocopy of that on your office door at Atari. I think it'll help programmer morale."

  6. Re:Mr. Potato Head Foot Massagers? by Fishstick · · Score: 5

    You do know that's "code" for a 'personal relaxation device', right?

    "Honey, what's this on the credit card bill?"

    "Oh, it's a foot masager."

    Yeah, right.

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  7. Hrrm by Sheeple+Police · · Score: 5

    warehouse for sale for a bug a cardtridge

    A bug a cartridge, eh? Any bug? *rubs hands deviously* I knew that ant hill would come in handy... now how to figure out how to get them all out... <evil laughter>

    If you'll excuse me, I have work to do... bwa ha ha ha..

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  8. oops again for slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5
    they're not a bug a game,

    nor are they a buck a game.

    They're $2/game.