{"id":134131,"date":"2026-09-13T15:35:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T15:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/13\/ataris-extra-terrestrial-is-biggest-flop-in-game-history-linked-to-huge-mystery\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T15:35:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T15:35:49","slug":"ataris-extra-terrestrial-is-biggest-flop-in-game-history-linked-to-huge-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/13\/ataris-extra-terrestrial-is-biggest-flop-in-game-history-linked-to-huge-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"Atari\u2019s &#8216;Extra-Terrestrial&#8217; is biggest flop in game history, linked to \u2018huge mystery\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atari&#8217;s infamous E.T. game failure led to a landfill mystery.  Unsold cartridges were reportedly dumped in New Mexico decades ago.  An archaeological dig in 2014 uncovered thousands of these buried game cartridges.  This discovery confirmed the long-standing myth about the game&#8217;s disposal.  The recovered items have since become valuable collector&#8217;s items.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atari&#8217;s infamous E.T. game failure led to a landfill mystery. Unsold cartridges were reportedly dumped in New Mexico decades ago. An archaeological dig in 2014 uncovered thousands of these buried game cartridges. This discovery confirmed the long-standing myth about the game&#8217;s disposal. The recovered items have since become valuable collector&#8217;s items.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":134132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}