{"id":63286,"date":"2014-04-12T09:02:44","date_gmt":"2014-04-12T07:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=63286"},"modified":"2014-04-12T09:12:05","modified_gmt":"2014-04-12T07:12:05","slug":"the-hunt-for-the-e-t-video-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/63286-the-hunt-for-the-e-t-video-game","title":{"rendered":"The hunt for the E.T. video game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time to unearth the truth behind the ultimate urban legend &#8211; does the\u00a0E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial video game burial site really exist?\u00a0Deep within a landfill in the small New Mexico town of\u00a0Alamogordo is where the answer lies.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Atari Corporation allegedly\u00a0disposed of millions of unsold E.T video game cartridges in 1983 by burying them in the small town landfill after the game received an overwhelmingly negative response from gamers and critics.<\/p>\n<p>E.T. featured in MyGaming&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/61965-legendary-video-game-fails.html\" target=\"_blank\">Legendary video game fails<\/a>, and the game was credited with irreparably damaging Atari.\u00a0Fuel Entertainment took an interest in the urban legend and, in December 2013, acquired the rights to excavate the Alamogordo landfill in search of the game. Fuel also partnered with\u00a0\u00a0Xbox Entertainment Studios to film the event as part of documentary series.<\/p>\n<p>Zak Penn, director of X-Men 2 and the Avengers, will be in charge of documenting the dig, which takes place on 26 April 2014. Members of the public are welcome, so if you are in the New Mexico area over that weekend go check it out.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the original E.T video game team are set to join too, including game\u00a0designer Howard Scott Warshaw, as well as a team of\u00a0archaeologists to make sure the games are dug up in a scientific manner.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QmNqsui0O0s?rel=0\" height=\"338\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.xbox.com\/2014\/04\/ent-attend-atari-landfill-excavation\" target=\"_blank\">Xbox Wire<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/63185-msi-gaming-laptop-beast-gets-sa-pricing.html\">MSI gaming laptop beast gets SA pricing<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/63115-the-simpsons-does-a-minecraft-couch-gag.html\">The Simpsons does a Minecraft couch gag<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/63123-bruce-lee-coming-to-ufc.html\">Bruce Lee coming to UFC<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The alien is buried somewhere in a vast wasteland of the New Mexico desert, will he be found?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":63287,"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":[12291,3738,21,12290,12289],"class_list":["post-63286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-burial-site","tag-e-t-the-extra-terrestrial","tag-headline","tag-landfill","tag-xbox-entertainment-studios"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63286","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\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63293,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63286\/revisions\/63293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}