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    Default Atari ET landfill story leads to GamePro cheekiness?

    Who's got GamePro #180 (Sep 03)? Turn to page 41, top of the page, and look at their blurb about Atari burying a bunch of ET cartridges. What does the photo next to it look like?
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    HOLY SHIT! Man, that doesn't take much to figure out, does it?? I read that article and it never crossed my mind.

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    Arrrgh. I don't have the magazine and now my curiosity is killing me.

    TELL ME!TELL ME!TELL ME!TELL ME!TELL ME!TELL ME!TELL ME!TELL ME!

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    Lock your bedroom doors, kids...

    GamePro Magazine scan


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    Wow. That's... wow.

    On a side note, free gamepro for a year.

    http://www.gamespy.com/arcade/gamepro.shtml

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    Quote Originally Posted by nildem
    Lock your bedroom doors, kids...

    GamePro Magazine scan


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    Quote Originally Posted by hezeuschrist
    Wow. That's... wow.

    On a side note, free gamepro for a year.

    http://www.gamespy.com/arcade/gamepro.shtml
    Yeah, but only if you are American.

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    Wow....I thought they dumped all those ET carts into a landfill, not into the bush.......
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    I can't remember where, but I've seen that photo before.

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    Most likely taken from Rotten.com.

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    There is nothing rotten about that image... more like to have been found on boners. Speaking of which, I haven't checked rotten in a while.

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    Rotten showcased some pretty tame fare before they decided to make a Boners section.

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    Eh, boners is usually more humerous than gruesome.

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    I remember reading this when it came out. The top 10 (or whatever) video game mythes. Someting like that. Anyway that photo was certainly not in the issue I was reading.

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    oh my....

    (what I get for glossing over stuff.... )
    SO not the Drama.

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    That has to be a mistake of some kind. Why would they do that?

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    There is no words for that picture. lol
    Somebody make me a "CGE 2k7 Attendee banner" so I don't have to use this lame text

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    That's the second largest bush I've ever seen!

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    hmmm, methinks I'm going to see if the wife would like to play with the Matchbox car collection tonight.

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    That doesn't look a thing like Alamagordo.

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