The Buried Cartridge

ISBN-13: 9783565221646 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str.

Michael Pitel

Opis

"The Buried Cartridge - How the worst video game ever made destroyed an industry" tells the legendary story of the Video Game Crash of 1983. Atari was the king of the world, the fastest-growing company in US history. In a hubristic rush to cash in on the movie E.T., they forced one developer to code the game in just five weeks. The result was a glitchy, unplayable mess.Gaming historian Michael Pitel chronicles the aftermath: Millions of cartridges were returned. Atari, facing financial ruin, secretly loaded 700,000 unsold games into trucks and buried them in a landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico. The crash wiped out 97% of the video game industry's revenue in two years."The Buried Cartridge" is a business thriller about quality control. It shows how flooding the market with garbage product ("shovelware") alienated an entire generation of consumers, until Nintendo eventually arrived to save the medium.

The true story of how Atari made a game so bad they had to bury millions of copies in the desert, nearly killing the gaming industry.