Me: remembering how many games were ruined by capitalism needing to make most of them too hard because "If they're too hard to beat during a weekend rental then people will be forced to buy the full game!"
I'm still bitter about Ecco the Dolphin and Dynamite Headdy. So much wasted potential.
Fuck that fucking octopus. Fuckin asshole. Suck off me
Only one of those prizes was ever awarded, the chalice won by Michael Rideout. Looks like he still has it too. He said in a 2017 interview that he keeps it in a safety deposit box.
The other things were a gold disc, a crown, a hunk of jade, and the golden sword. The sword was apparently in an Atari executive's office for a while. The disc got melted. No one seems to know what happened to the crown or the jade. This whole project seems like it reached too far. It happened right as the 1983 video game crash was happening and Atari was going bankrupt.