ET Go Home

As NHPR states they have found ET in New Mexico desert. They state:

For decades, it was mere legend: an "Atari Dump" rumored to harbor millions of copies of E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, a video game so bad that burying it in the New Mexico desert seemed the best way to move on. But now, the Atari graveyard has been exhumed, and the latest attempt to find the cache of game cartridges has been declared a success. Helped by heavy machinery, a crew found some of the games today, in a dig ...

I remember being at  Warner at the time, the Fall of 1982, and I was the Warner Cable interface with Atari. In October they were planning for a $2 billion 1983 and by December the roof collapsed. It was the best education in corporate planning gone amok. There was a flock of the most arrogant people I have ever met and then they were gone. Limousines gave way to the bus. Corporate jets gave way to People's Express.

I recall attending meetings and just wondering what was the basis for their original projections. The answer was always that is was always that way. As if change never occurs. It was one colossal mistake of arrogance after another.Perhaps a lesson for some, yet forgotten for many.