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by voberoi 1479 days ago
The author was laid off in 1984 -- presumably around the time this email was written: https://atariemailarchive.org/thread/on-atari-s-future-38.

[Shameless plug: I made Atari Email Archive and it's fun to peruse if you are interested in primary source material from this era. The emails all come from Jed Margolin (jmargolin.com), with his permission.]
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LanceJones 1479 days ago
Fascinating threads in there... like discussions about the Challenger explosion and whether or not the tragedy was actually a tragedy (or a spark for a new Atari game).
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TedDoesntTalk 1479 days ago
> challenger explosion

https://atariemailarchive.org/thread/on-the-challenger-shutt...

Can we get these archived at archive.org? What a treasure trove.

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voberoi 1479 days ago
How does one do that?

I think Jed's messages are probably archived -- text files linked to at the bottom here too: https://www.jmargolin.com/vmail/vmail.htm

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TedDoesntTalk 1479 days ago
> How does one do that?

Go to https://archive.org/web/ scroll to the bottom where it says “save page now”. Enter URL and click “save page” button.

I have not found a way to enter multiple URLs or tell the archive to crawl an entire domain/site. If you figure that out, please let me know.

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TedDoesntTalk 1479 days ago
> CIGGIES AND GAMES ARE SORT OF THE SAME... LITTLE SQUARE BOXES THAT TEENIES GET HOOKED ON.

So even then we suspected the addictive aspect of video games?

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voberoi 1479 days ago
Yes, this was part of the public discourse around video games in the 80s.

See: https://atariemailarchive.org/thread/on-claiming-that-video-...

This is a quote from an Erma Bombeck article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erma_Bombeck).

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