04-26-2014, 03:52 PM
Of all the myths out there though, this one was the only one that seemed the most plausible and now confirmed.
Think about it, you are a company who has on your hands the movie-tie in to one of the biggest movie of all time and your own product is one of the worst games of all time. You can't sell it, you can't even give it away and you are losing money from it sitting on the shelves. Stores are losing money for the shelf space taken up. So the only thing you can do, short of just doing a mass burning of them is to literally bury the evidence of their existence.
I don't see why people thought this was a hoax, there was some newspaper evidence to show that there was a mass burial in the desert. The only reason, if I remember, why people didn't fully know is because Atari and whom ever else involved chose not to say anything. Do you really want to admit to having a game so bad you have to bury it in the desert like a Las Vegas mob hit?
Think about it, you are a company who has on your hands the movie-tie in to one of the biggest movie of all time and your own product is one of the worst games of all time. You can't sell it, you can't even give it away and you are losing money from it sitting on the shelves. Stores are losing money for the shelf space taken up. So the only thing you can do, short of just doing a mass burning of them is to literally bury the evidence of their existence.
I don't see why people thought this was a hoax, there was some newspaper evidence to show that there was a mass burial in the desert. The only reason, if I remember, why people didn't fully know is because Atari and whom ever else involved chose not to say anything. Do you really want to admit to having a game so bad you have to bury it in the desert like a Las Vegas mob hit?