{"id":22060,"date":"2013-05-31T14:06:30","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T21:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=22060"},"modified":"2013-05-31T14:06:30","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T21:06:30","slug":"e-t-may-rise-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/05\/31\/e-t-may-rise-again\/","title":{"rendered":"E.T. may rise again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"22060\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/et-title.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/et-title.jpg\" alt=\"et-title\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22062\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New Mexico is infamous for atom bomb tests, UFO sightings, and tales of the Atari 2600 E.T. videogame. The story goes that sometime in September 1983, nine semi-trailer loads of E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial game cartridges and other gaming junk was crushed and dumped in an Alamogordo, New Mexico landfill. The game was a critical and financial bomb for Atari and is often cited as a major factor in the industry&#8217;s woes for that decade. Despite its importance in videogame history, the E.T. game disposal passed into the lands of urban legend.<\/p>\n<p>Local station <a href=\"http:\/\/www.krqe.com\/\/dpp\/news\/southeast\/alamogordo-approves-atari-excavation\">KRQE<\/a> reports that we may finally get the full story. Alamogordo&#8217;s city commissioners have struck a deal with a Canadian film company to excavate the supposed site of the burial. Fuel Industries will have access to the property for six months and will document the dig for an upcoming movie project.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I hope more people find out about Alamogordo through this opportunity that we have to unearth the Atari games in the landfill,&#8221; said Susie Galea, Alamogordo&#8217;s mayor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good luck! I hope they find that copy of KC&#8217;s Crazy Chase I threw away when I was a kid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>E.T. may rise again - Quarter to Three<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/05\/31\/e-t-may-rise-again\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"E.T. may rise again - 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