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The reels are forty seconds. These are the long versions: how the game got made, what happened next, where to get it today, with a source for every claim.
Gaming history ·
Atari really buried E.T., just not 3.5 million of them
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.
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The oddities ·
Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing, the game you cannot lose
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.
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Retro ·
No One Lives Forever, the 91-rated shooter nobody can sell
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.
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Every reel.
Every reel I have made, ranked by views. Filter by shelf, search a game, or sort by date. A reel with an article opens here; the rest open on YouTube.
57 reels
Article
Big Rigs
Shadows of Doubt
Fallout: London
Warband mods
Sid Meier's Pirates!
Skywind
Article
No One Lives Forever
Creative Assembly apologies
Shogun 2 ex-CA AMA
Elite
5 dark fantasy games
Arx Fatalis
Commandos
Doom shareware
Mario's moustache
Trespasser
Desert Bus
Vampire: Bloodlines
The Half-Life 2 hack
Heroes 3: Horn of the Abyss
Shenmue
Cruelty Squad
Claw
Article
Atari E.T. landfill
Chaos Theory
Superman 64
Hypnospace Outlaw
LSD: Dream Emulator
Halo as an RTS
Black & White 2
Robin Hood
Chronicles of Myrtana
Virtuality VR pods
Empire Earth II
Garfield Kart
Noita
Assassin's Creed Destiny
Eternal Darkness
Diablo II Cow Level
Seaman
Half-Life 2 RTX
Lunacid
Apotheon
Evil Genius
Sega Activator
F.E.A.R.
Chex Quest
Is This Seat Taken?
Newstower
Nokia N-Gage
Ghost Master
Gloomwood
Kind Words 2
A Little to the Left
Donkey Kong flyer art
Pentiment
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
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