{"id":54718,"date":"2013-06-03T11:47:43","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T09:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=54718"},"modified":"2013-06-03T11:48:56","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T09:48:56","slug":"et-landfill-site-to-be-dug-up-by-film-crew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/54718-et-landfill-site-to-be-dug-up-by-film-crew","title":{"rendered":"ET landfill site to be dug up by film crew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most infamous stories of the video game industry was when Atari reportedly buried millions of unsold Atari 2600 consoles and copies of the ET game \u2013 arguably the worst thing ever created.<\/p>\n<p>Well, a documentary crew from Fuel Industries has received the go-ahead to dig up the shameful pit of video game blunder in order to determine if the industry\u2019s most talked-about urban legends is true.<\/p>\n<p>The excavation will mark the 30 year anniversary of the supposed September 1983 burial, which was a result of the video game crash of the early 1980s, where Atari overproduced millions of consoles to cater for what they thought would be a welcoming market.<\/p>\n<p>The burial is said to contain 3.5 million copies of ET, Atari consoles, PCs, and even prototypes of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atarimuseum.com\/videogames\/consoles\/2600\/mindlink.html\" target=\"_blank\">Atari Mindlink controller<\/a>.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QmNqsui0O0s?rel=0\" height=\"338\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.krqe.com\/dpp\/news\/southeast\/alamogordo-approves-atari-excavation\" target=\"_blank\">KRQE<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news and features<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/54658-games-of-june-2013.html\">Games of June 2013<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/54632-massive-game-video-blowout.html\">Massive game video blowout<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/54636-the-week-in-gaming-2.html\">The week in gaming<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Atari-News-Logo.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Film crew about to discover whether the infamous Atari burial is real or not<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":49644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,3737,10179,10181,10180],"class_list":["post-54718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-atari","tag-atari-landfull","tag-et-game","tag-video-game-crash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54722,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54718\/revisions\/54722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}