{"id":355,"date":"2003-10-19T21:23:02","date_gmt":"2003-10-20T00:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=355"},"modified":"2003-10-19T21:23:02","modified_gmt":"2003-10-20T00:23:02","slug":"childs-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=355","title":{"rendered":"Child&#8217;s play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>L<\/span>et a bunch of kids (preferably &#8216;Playstation&#8217; generation) play the good old games from the Eighties and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.egmmag.com\/article2\/0,4364,1338730,00.asp\">magic things happen<\/a>. Space Invaders:\n<\/p>\n<p class=quote>EGM: This game was so popular in Japan that\u2014<\/p>\n<p>John: They made it into a TV show?<\/p>\n<p>EGM: Well, no. It was so popular that they ran out\u2014<\/p>\n<p>John: Oh, did they make collectible trading cards for it?<\/p>\n<p>EGM: Um, no. It was so popular that there was a shortage of the coins used to play it.<\/p>\n<p>John: But you can get this game on a cell phone. Why would you want to pay for it in an arcade?<\/p>\n<p>Andrew: I&#8217;ve seen a game like this in the arcade, but it&#8217;s tons faster.\n<\/p>\n<p>Kids lack imagination nowadays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let a bunch of kids (preferably &#8216;Playstation&#8217; generation) play the good old games from the Eighties and magic things happen. Space Invaders: EGM: This game was so popular in Japan that\u2014 John: They made it into a TV show? EGM: &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=355\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}