Sam & Max: Season 3 Hints

What's with all the Mimesweeper cartridges?

  • The story is that in the 1980s, one software company grossly overestimated how popular their newest game was going to be and overproduced the cartridges for it. Rather than destroy, recycle, give away, or just sit on the unwanted games, they made the bizarre choice to dump them in a nearby landfill. Well, it was the 80s, you know ...

    For more on this very strange choice, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_video_game_burial.