So they did waste the valuable plastic instead of just reusing the cartridges?
No wonder Atari basically died after the 2600.
The exact opposite of Nintendo, who reprogrammed and redesign all the arcade cabinets of it's failed arcade game to make the successful Donkey Kong in 1981.
The Nintendo way: Our game failed. Let's recycle these components to make a better one.
The Atari way: Our game failed. Oh the shame! Let's bury those damned cartridges to the depths of the earth and never think of this again.
Well, I have to imagine RadarScope being one of the first things Nintendo of America would've published, so they don't want their first product to be a flop. Not to mention an ARCADE MACHINE is probably more costly to just throw out than a CARTRIDGE.
Also, I want to guess Nintendo prefers to recycle for privacy more than environmental reasons. (so it's said the Nintendo championships carts beside the '90 edition are nearly one-of-a-kind because NoA recycled those)
You can't really compare throwing away unwanted Atari game cartridges to disposing of an arcade cabinet that contains hundreds of dollars of reusable and interchangable parts.
My guess is they buried them rather than recycling them because it would probably cost them more time and money to go through the effort of removing the stickers off all the cartridges and switching out the chips than it would to just make new cartridges from scratch.
Spoiler Alert: The masterminds behind this operation actually aren't Microsoft, and are actually Nintendo's most recent Treehouse (eShop) employees @ogo79 and @8BitSamurai , who plan to sell these rare games for $700 each.
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I'm sad that he didn't get his food. They should know not to mess with Stone Cold E.T.
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"If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome."- Michael Jordan
“I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. Its because of them I’m doing it myself.” – ?????
Yeah I figured he wouldn't be bothered by it he just seems that kinda of guy to me. But I was interested in hearing what he had to say about the ordeal.
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