Why Atari Buried 728,000 Games in the Desert
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Discover why Atari buried 728,000 games in the desert and how inventory blindness, not one bad game, caused the 1983 collapse. Learn the real story behind the E.T. and Pac-Man overproduction and the fatal decisions that led to the landfill. Chapters: 00:00 Fourteen truckloads 00:11 Why bury it 00:33 It stopped counting 00:43 The centre of everything 01:10 It held the rights 01:26 Twelve made, seven sold 01:47 It read the wrong number 02:08 The rights to E.T. 02:30 Five weeks 02:53 Not a bad programmer 03:23 Four million more 03:41 It was not a flop 04:01 They came back 04:19 The numbers disagree 04:40 What actually collapsed 04:56 The eighth of December 05:16 Somebody knew first 05:34 No gate on the shelf 06:11 Five hundred and thirty-six million 06:22 Into the ground 06:46 The story that grew 07:06 They dug it up 07:19 Seven hundred and twenty-eight thousand 07:44 A catalogue, not a game
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