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Well this happened back when we really didn't give a shit about the environment AND just before conspicuous consumption more or less defined the 80s. What I'm

by gregd 12y ago

Well this happened back when we really didn't give a shit about the environment AND just before conspicuous consumption more or less defined the 80s. What I'm dumbfounded by is why they didn't simply give them away? It reminds me of all the stupid YouTube videos of people who wait in line to buy the latest Apple product only to smash it in front of everyone else waiting in line...

callesgg 12y ago
It Is a shity game. Allowing people to play it would have been bad for the brand. Where I work, we(someone) burns the stuff that we can't sell not cause the stuff is bad, it is done to make shore the brand does not get associated with Cheap stuff. Brand status is important. (I know it is somewhat insane but it is the way capitalism works)
- gregd 12y ago
  And yet look where Atari is today..
  - callesgg 12y ago
    Classical http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_causation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_caus...
- xrjn 12y ago
  One of the local super markets sends containers full of new TVs, washing machines, and more, to the local scrap yard. They didn't sell them within the period that they expected, and instead of discounting them (which would drive away consumers from more expensive products), they 'recycle' them.
flomo 12y ago
Atari games were discounted to $1 or $2 and they were stacked to the celling at major retailers. They sat around discount stores for a decade afterward. There's still warehouses full of them.[1] The company produced millions more games than the number of systems they sold, so who would they have given them too? [1] http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2009/02/gamesetinterview_atariclassic.php http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2009/02/gamesetinterview_ataricl...
raldi 12y ago
If I remember correctly, the cartridges had to be destroyed for tax reasons.
smacktoward 12y ago
> this happened back when we really didn't give a shit about the environment The first Earth Day was in 1970: http://www.earthday.org/earth-day-history-movement http://www.earthday.org/earth-day-history-movement Which is not to say it was impossible in the early '80s to not give a shit about the environment, just that by that point ignorance really wasn't a good excuse anymore.
sown 12y ago
> What I'm dumbfounded by is why they didn't simply give them away? ET for Atari was that horrible. You cannot give it away.

by gregd 12y ago

callesgg 12y ago

It Is a shity game. Allowing people to play it would have been bad for the brand. Where I work, we(someone) burns the stuff that we can't sell not cause the stuff is bad, it is done to make shore the brand does not get associated with Cheap stuff. Brand status is important. (I know it is somewhat insane but it is the way capitalism works)

gregd 12y ago
And yet look where Atari is today..
- callesgg 12y ago
  Classical http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_causation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_caus...
xrjn 12y ago
One of the local super markets sends containers full of new TVs, washing machines, and more, to the local scrap yard. They didn't sell them within the period that they expected, and instead of discounting them (which would drive away consumers from more expensive products), they 'recycle' them.

flomo 12y ago

Atari games were discounted to $1 or $2 and they were stacked to the celling at major retailers. They sat around discount stores for a decade afterward. There's still warehouses full of them.[1] The company produced millions more games than the number of systems they sold, so who would they have given them too? [1] http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2009/02/gamesetinterview_atariclassic.php http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2009/02/gamesetinterview_ataricl...

raldi 12y ago

If I remember correctly, the cartridges had to be destroyed for tax reasons.

smacktoward 12y ago

> this happened back when we really didn't give a shit about the environment The first Earth Day was in 1970: http://www.earthday.org/earth-day-history-movement http://www.earthday.org/earth-day-history-movement Which is not to say it was impossible in the early '80s to not give a shit about the environment, just that by that point ignorance really wasn't a good excuse anymore.

sown 12y ago

> What I'm dumbfounded by is why they didn't simply give them away? ET for Atari was that horrible. You cannot give it away.