{"id":6064,"date":"2014-04-28T06:50:53","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T13:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=6064"},"modified":"2014-04-27T13:54:25","modified_gmt":"2014-04-27T20:54:25","slug":"e-t-is-found-in-the-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=6064","title":{"rendered":"E.T. is Found in the Desert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s considered the worst video game of all time. It&#8217;s stench was so strong that it is often blamed for sinking Atari back in the early 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>The game was called E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, which ran on the Atari 2600 console. Yep, even I had one of those, but I don&#8217;t recall buying the E.T. game. Anyway, the game was so foul that they buried over a million cartridges out in the desert somewhere. And now those cartridges have been found, putting to rest a 30-year-old rumor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/diggers-ataris-e-t-games-landfill-193256509.html\" target=\"_blank\">Finding the Games<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/E.T._the_Extra-Terrestrial_(video_game)\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia link for the E.T. video game.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s considered the worst video game of all time. It&#8217;s stench was so strong that it is often blamed for sinking Atari back in the early 1980s. The game was called E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, which ran on the Atari 2600 console. Yep, even I had one of those, but I don&#8217;t recall buying the E.T. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wambooli-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6065,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6064\/revisions\/6065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}