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You got your Obama in my Atari: Custom game covers
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There's an infamous story of millions upon millions of old Atari cartridges of the game E.T. being buried in a landfill in New Mexico. The game, which although was a technical marvel in hindsight (it was programmed in 5 weeks) and sold well, was a bomb for the company and caused the first video game depression (the second ongoing one is Sega refusing to make another Jet Grind Radio). To this day, it has not been completely confirmed whether the landfill story is true or not. However, as Jim Rome likes to say, "don't let the truth get in the way of a good story." This especially applies to Atari landfills and Rickey Henderson.
However, thanks to a Flickr member, we may have discovered where these old cartridges went. As it turns out, Atari was a pretty forward thinking company, producing prototype cartridges for games about topics that are pretty relevant today. Who knew Atari had the foresight to make a game about our current President? Or what about a game that satirizes an annoying internet meme? And how do they explain their thinking behind creating the fourth game in a series that hadn't even started yet at the time? Maybe if these games had seen the light of day back in the 80s instead of today, the video game world would be a different place.
Or not, and maybe these are just pretty cool custom covers that someone came across on Flickr. Either one works for me. Remember, "don't let the truth get in the way of a good story." ;)
Story and media courtesy of Technabob
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