RWNorthPole https://rwnorthpole.com/reels/ Human-voiced 40-second reels on retro games, mods, upcoming games, gaming history and hardware. Daily on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube Shorts and Facebook. en-us Tue, 20 Oct 2026 22:00:00 GMT https://rwnorthpole.com/icon-512.pngRWNorthPolehttps://rwnorthpole.com/ Atari really buried E.T., just not 3.5 million of them https://rwnorthpole.com/reels/atari-et-landfill/ https://rwnorthpole.com/reels/atari-et-landfill/ Tue, 20 Oct 2026 22:00:00 GMT Gaming history In 1983 Atari dumped truckloads of unsold games in Alamogordo, New Mexico. A 2014 dig found 1,300 cartridges. What was buried, who has it now, how to see it. Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing, the game you cannot lose https://rwnorthpole.com/reels/big-rigs/ https://rwnorthpole.com/reels/big-rigs/ Tue, 20 Oct 2026 22:00:00 GMT The oddities Big Rigs shipped in 2003 with no collision detection, a rival that never finishes and a reverse gear with no top speed. In 2025 it returned to Steam, unfixed. No One Lives Forever, the 91-rated shooter nobody can sell https://rwnorthpole.com/reels/no-one-lives-forever/ https://rwnorthpole.com/reels/no-one-lives-forever/ Tue, 20 Oct 2026 22:00:00 GMT Retro The Operative: No One Lives Forever scored 91 on Metacritic in 2000. Three companies may own it, none of them can prove it, and no digital store sells it.