{"id":855,"date":"2010-01-07T13:41:41","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T18:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikew.ca\/wp\/?p=855"},"modified":"2025-01-13T12:17:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T12:17:59","slug":"classic-arcade-games-arent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/?p=855","title":{"rendered":"Classic arcade games aren&#8217;t."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At CES, Microsoft announced &#8220;Game Room for XBOX 360&#8221;, which is purported to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/01\/06\/microsoft-announces-game-room-for-xbox-360\/\"> &#8220;recreate the old school arcade experience for you (and your avatar)&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Image no longer available from Engadget)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Pete&#8217;s sake people, can we please stop finding yet another way to re-deliver games that we got bored of twenty years ago. If we ever want the world at large to treat games like a valid art form, we&#8217;ve got to stop glorifying trivial gameplay and graphics so stupid-ugly that they can be implemented by <a href=\"http:\/\/benfirshman.com\/projects\/jsnes\/\">emulating the whole bloody machine <em>in JavaScript<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At CES, Microsoft announced &#8220;Game Room for XBOX 360&#8221;, which is purported to &#8220;recreate the old school arcade experience for you (and your avatar)&#8221;. (Image no longer available from Engadget) For Pete&#8217;s sake people, can we please stop finding yet another way to re-deliver games that we got bored of twenty years ago. If we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-linkoftheday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3066,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions\/3066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}