posted by Steven Clontz on Mar 6
We found ourselves with a hard decision to make today. And we’ve recently gotten some more press coverage, so I suppose the timing couldn’t be any more unfortunate…
I don’t want to bore any of you with the details of our personal lives, but over the past couple days we’ve had to accept the resignation of some of our team members. Due to that and other mitigating circumstances beyond our control, I’m afraid I’m forced to officially declare the E.T.’s March project on hiatus.
The overwhelming support from the community has been amazing, and that’s why we cannot go ahead and film as scheduled. If we were to hit the road next week as planned, I’m afraid the product would only disappoint everyone due to these last minute conflicts. Although admittedly, the irony of trying to rush a documentary on E.T. the Video Game only to have it become the worst film ever hasn’t escaped us!
E.T.’s March is not canceled, however. We’ll be doing some reevaluating over the upcoming months, and will make an announcement here when the project resurfaces. What I can promise is that this film won’t become Duke Nukem: Forever’s March; next time we make an announcement, there won’t be any going back.
Thank you all again.
posted by Steven Clontz on Feb 19
Thanks to the cool kids at Kotaku, who hooked us up with a link.
http://kotaku.com/357411/filmakers-to-produce-et-landfill-documentary
To all of you who left comments and sent us emails, thanks for your interest! Some of you even offered to help with the project, or providing venues for screening the project when it’s finished. That’s pretty cool! We’re still ironing out a lot of the details, but as our plans become more set, we’ll be touching base with some of you. This documentary belongs to all of us, after all.
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posted by Steven Clontz on Feb 17
The year is 1983. It’s a dark year for video gamers everywhere, with headlines rocking the industry, creating negative press unlike that we experience today.
CHILD OBESITY LINKED TO PAC MEN “MUNCHING” SENSATION
STUDY SHOWS 90% OF TRAFFIC OFFENDERS PLAYED SPY HUNTER THIS YEAR
HIDDEN SEXUAL INNUENDO FOUND IN HACKED POLE POSITION ARCADE GAME
But perhaps the darkest news story was run in the Alamogordo Daily News.
DUMP HERE UTILIZED - TONS OF ATARI GAMES BURIED
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posted by Steven Clontz on Feb 15
Those curious to learn exactly what we’re about can now go to http://www.auburn.edu/~clontsc/etmarch/about/ to learn about the project.
posted by Steven Clontz on Jan 15
I just uploaded Wordpress with a free sci-fi Theme to my Auburn webspace. Planning is just now getting started for the event, but I thought I should go ahead and get ready for when we announce the project. We only have a couple months to go, after all!