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Right off the top, three of the links in your reference section are dead. -- SECisek 09:41, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
I thought about that too, since Pac Man was supposed to be involved. The article convinced me that the whole thing was probably a hoax anyway, and nobody ever refers to it as the Pac Man Video Game Burial. Yes, I think the article is well done and should be cut into the GA Atari E.T. article. I don't think this one can really grow much more by itself, so why not? -- SECisek 06:01, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
there is a music video where they dig up all these cartridges maybe someone can find include that?
I believe the article on the band in question was deleted for a lack of notability. -- Lenin and McCarthy | ( Complain here) 00:39, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
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I recall that there was a joke about this in the last episode of Sam and Max Season 2 (by TellTale Games)--there was a pile of buried cartridges in the understreet scene. Can anyone recall the name of the game and/or write a fair description of this joke? Seaborg106 ( talk) 17:27, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
It is getting close to 3 years old. Does that get updated periodically? Varlaam ( talk) 21:06, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
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Let me know what you decide about the infobox and the suggestion above I'll take the GA off hold. Nice job on this article, as I mentioned it was fun to read and review. -- Deadly∀ssassin 07:50, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
Proposing per A-class guidelines. Article has recently passed a Good Article nomination, and has sicne had a few additional references to further strengthen a few points. New information or free images for the article are unlikely to be available in the foreseeable future, although I will be keeping an eye out on the off-chance that Retro Gamer, the only reliable journal likely to cover the topic, would happen to make mention of it (though in their two-issue, multiple-page history of Atari, it didn't even get mentioned in passing, so who knows); As such, I believe the article is stable and will probably not grow much more beyond its current state, so I'm presenting it for A-class assessment now. I should be available at short notice should there be any requested changes. GRAPPLE X 03:18, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
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It should be mentioned here that the AVGN's movie that is being filmed revolves around ET and the location of the cartridge burial site. 90.162.193.218 ( talk) 16:26, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
Kleinman, Zoe (4 June 2013). "ET game excavation confirmed by studio". BBC. Retrieved 4 June 2013. Chris857 ( talk) 23:36, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
Does anyone else find it eerie that the suspected load of E.T cartridges' grave site has proximity to Roswell? E.T? Roswell? Pretty weird... maybe Atari knows something that we don't. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.79.50.132 ( talk) 18:53, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
Apparently the cartridges have been found Source. Soffredo 19:18, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
All that's been confirmed so far is what was covered in reports at the time: that there was a dumping and it was a wide assortment of game titles and hardware. The list of titles reported there have always contained ET amongst it. And the preliminary findings also show this. It has not been confirmed that it was a mass dumping of ET, rather the internet is running rampant with that idea because of some ET games being found already (as was Centipede and Raiders).-- Marty Goldberg ( talk) 21:50, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
It's confirmed. There's even a picture of the E.T. cartridge dug up in the picture. Not sure exactly how true the myth is though, may have been a bit exaggerated (in the amount) of things dumped.
The article: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/04/26/307178240/e-t-s-home-is-found-trove-of-atari-games-unearthed-at-landfill Thdegy ( talk) 23:53, 26 April 2014 (UTC)Thdegy
Just noting that I updated the article with a quote from Jim Heller, the original person in charge of the dumping who stated that there were only 728,000 games buried there. This further discounts the notion of "millions of ETs" there. -- Marty Goldberg ( talk) 12:31, 27 April 2014 (UTC)
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I think the following passage in the lead "the event became a cultural icon and a reminder of the video game crash of 1983" is not quite stylistically appropriate for Wikipedia. I don't believe any of the sources in this page refer to the video game burial as a "cultural icon" and I think the "reminder" is not really in our style - a reminder to whom? Both things read like editorialising to me.
I did rephrase this passage to remove these things and it was reverted with the reasoning that this article has a section on references to the burial in popular culture. A lot of Wikipedia articles have "in popular culture" sections, but having such a section does not make the subject a cultural icon. There are four references currently listed in the article' one is a reference in a music video for a song (without an article) by Wintergreen, a band who do not appear to have had any significant success and whose article uses a single dead link source. The other three references are in the independent film Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie, the TV series Elementary and a video game-based novel Lucky Wander Boy.
In my opinion, these references don't really support "cultural icon" - the Elementary plot device is the only one I'd personally say might indicate that the burial has significant cultural impact outside of the video game world. I would also question is "cultural icon" is appropriate terminology for a private burial, one that was once believed to be an urban myth, one that had no iconography as such until the 2014 excavation. More than that, I just don't think it's a phrase we should be using without sources explicitly supporting it. Thoughts? Humbledaisy ( talk) 19:33, 13 September 2023 (UTC)
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Right off the top, three of the links in your reference section are dead. -- SECisek 09:41, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
I thought about that too, since Pac Man was supposed to be involved. The article convinced me that the whole thing was probably a hoax anyway, and nobody ever refers to it as the Pac Man Video Game Burial. Yes, I think the article is well done and should be cut into the GA Atari E.T. article. I don't think this one can really grow much more by itself, so why not? -- SECisek 06:01, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
there is a music video where they dig up all these cartridges maybe someone can find include that?
I believe the article on the band in question was deleted for a lack of notability. -- Lenin and McCarthy | ( Complain here) 00:39, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
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I recall that there was a joke about this in the last episode of Sam and Max Season 2 (by TellTale Games)--there was a pile of buried cartridges in the understreet scene. Can anyone recall the name of the game and/or write a fair description of this joke? Seaborg106 ( talk) 17:27, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
It is getting close to 3 years old. Does that get updated periodically? Varlaam ( talk) 21:06, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
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Let me know what you decide about the infobox and the suggestion above I'll take the GA off hold. Nice job on this article, as I mentioned it was fun to read and review. -- Deadly∀ssassin 07:50, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
Proposing per A-class guidelines. Article has recently passed a Good Article nomination, and has sicne had a few additional references to further strengthen a few points. New information or free images for the article are unlikely to be available in the foreseeable future, although I will be keeping an eye out on the off-chance that Retro Gamer, the only reliable journal likely to cover the topic, would happen to make mention of it (though in their two-issue, multiple-page history of Atari, it didn't even get mentioned in passing, so who knows); As such, I believe the article is stable and will probably not grow much more beyond its current state, so I'm presenting it for A-class assessment now. I should be available at short notice should there be any requested changes. GRAPPLE X 03:18, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
Herr Gruber ( talk) 06:03, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
It should be mentioned here that the AVGN's movie that is being filmed revolves around ET and the location of the cartridge burial site. 90.162.193.218 ( talk) 16:26, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
Kleinman, Zoe (4 June 2013). "ET game excavation confirmed by studio". BBC. Retrieved 4 June 2013. Chris857 ( talk) 23:36, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
Does anyone else find it eerie that the suspected load of E.T cartridges' grave site has proximity to Roswell? E.T? Roswell? Pretty weird... maybe Atari knows something that we don't. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.79.50.132 ( talk) 18:53, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
Apparently the cartridges have been found Source. Soffredo 19:18, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
All that's been confirmed so far is what was covered in reports at the time: that there was a dumping and it was a wide assortment of game titles and hardware. The list of titles reported there have always contained ET amongst it. And the preliminary findings also show this. It has not been confirmed that it was a mass dumping of ET, rather the internet is running rampant with that idea because of some ET games being found already (as was Centipede and Raiders).-- Marty Goldberg ( talk) 21:50, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
It's confirmed. There's even a picture of the E.T. cartridge dug up in the picture. Not sure exactly how true the myth is though, may have been a bit exaggerated (in the amount) of things dumped.
The article: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/04/26/307178240/e-t-s-home-is-found-trove-of-atari-games-unearthed-at-landfill Thdegy ( talk) 23:53, 26 April 2014 (UTC)Thdegy
Just noting that I updated the article with a quote from Jim Heller, the original person in charge of the dumping who stated that there were only 728,000 games buried there. This further discounts the notion of "millions of ETs" there. -- Marty Goldberg ( talk) 12:31, 27 April 2014 (UTC)
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I think the following passage in the lead "the event became a cultural icon and a reminder of the video game crash of 1983" is not quite stylistically appropriate for Wikipedia. I don't believe any of the sources in this page refer to the video game burial as a "cultural icon" and I think the "reminder" is not really in our style - a reminder to whom? Both things read like editorialising to me.
I did rephrase this passage to remove these things and it was reverted with the reasoning that this article has a section on references to the burial in popular culture. A lot of Wikipedia articles have "in popular culture" sections, but having such a section does not make the subject a cultural icon. There are four references currently listed in the article' one is a reference in a music video for a song (without an article) by Wintergreen, a band who do not appear to have had any significant success and whose article uses a single dead link source. The other three references are in the independent film Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie, the TV series Elementary and a video game-based novel Lucky Wander Boy.
In my opinion, these references don't really support "cultural icon" - the Elementary plot device is the only one I'd personally say might indicate that the burial has significant cultural impact outside of the video game world. I would also question is "cultural icon" is appropriate terminology for a private burial, one that was once believed to be an urban myth, one that had no iconography as such until the 2014 excavation. More than that, I just don't think it's a phrase we should be using without sources explicitly supporting it. Thoughts? Humbledaisy ( talk) 19:33, 13 September 2023 (UTC)