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