NPD hype has died down, this thread deserves a second chance.

Indeed. NPD is overrated :P

hmmm interesting

Too much water

It's always interesting to read about history.

Tiny correction though, late last year, they found the famed Atari junkyard. However, the story about there being 2m ET cartridges proved an urban legend. They found 'only' 700k items, with ET amongst them, but also many other games and hardware items. Where the millions of remaining ET cartridges are, who knows. There's also a documentary about the excavation.

Yeah I know, just wrote this in 2008ish where that info wasn't public.

fuk da polise

More people need to see this thread!

Great thread! For some reason, all of that sounds very familiar...

Atari is a big part of gaming history. Utterly irrelevant after 1982 though...

Thanks for this read. Sadly the suits taking over many companies, in good Indies we have to trust.