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, 9 years agoAn event that is documented in written material and which involves many people who are still alive isn't really an urban legend.
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The game is at least complete, and not buggy. This isn't ''[[Big Rigs Over the Road Racing]]''. But the gameplay is boring, confusing, and repetitive. It's also very easy to fall into a pit, and once you levitate back out, you often fall right back in again. Watching the movie doesn't in any way help you understand what you are supposed to do in the game; of course, reading the manual helps a lot, but [[Read the Freaking Manual|who would do that anyway]]? Atari also published a [[Strategy Guide|Hints Sheet]] later, but the damage was already done. If this had been just another 2600 game, it would have been considered below average and quickly forgotten. But Atari's big bet on it is what made it infamous. Atari produced four million units, expecting a massive hit. One and a half million sold, but most of these were sent back. Atari lost millions, Warner Communications' stock price took a 35% hit, and within a few months, [[The Great Video Game Crash of 1983]] was underway.
In September 1983, Atari buried a bunch of stuff in a New Mexico landfill
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