Talk:Shovelware/Archives/2014

Atari ET
I thinnk the term comes from ET for Atari 2600, which had truckloads of unsold cartridges which were buried in a landfill in Mexico.

That public domain material could be garbage is a valid opinion but only an opinion. &mdash;the preceding unsigned comment is by 68.161.238.220 (talk &bull; contribs)
 * The article doesn't say anything about that! To give an example, take twenty PD image conversion programs. All can do pretty much the same thing. All might work perfectly well. They only become shovelware if somebody puts all of them onto one CD or one FTP archive. -- Smurfix

Shovelware could also refer to the onslaught of terrible/sub-par games that flooded the market during the mid to late 1980s at the time of the video game crash (in particular Atari with ET and Pac-Man two games that were the final nails in the coffin and lead to the crash) Andy Howard (talk) 15:23, 19 July 2014 (UTC)