{"id":146,"date":"2004-12-30T01:02:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-30T00:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.dk\/ludologist\/?p=146"},"modified":"2004-12-30T11:47:33","modified_gmt":"2004-12-30T10:47:33","slug":"do-you-identify-with-this-dot-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2004\/12\/30\/do-you-identify-with-this-dot-character\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you identify with this dot character?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1up has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1up.com\/do\/feature?pager.offset=0&#038;cId=3137498\">a hilarious article with kids trying out classic games<\/a> (or perhaps &#8220;classic&#8221; games).<br \/>\nAbout <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/game\/sheet\/p,28\/gameId,11162\/\">Adventure <\/a>for the 2600:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>EGM<\/strong>: Do you identify with this dot character?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Garret<\/strong>: No. The dot is small. I am not.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bobby<\/strong>: Yeah. My best friend, he looks just like this dot: small, handsome and adventurous.<\/p>\n<p><strong>EGM<\/strong>: How long would you put up with this game?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Garret<\/strong>: I could put up with this game for five more minutes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bobby<\/strong>: I could put up with this game for hours, but I&#8217;m so easily amused. How about we just pretend this is the new Metal Gear Solid Snake Eater game. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I would love to see them trying out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/game\/sheet\/p,27\/gameId,1324\/\">Elite<\/a> &#8211; I have a heretic belief that though the game pioneered open-ended gameplay and people talk about Elite as something absolutely wonderful, it would be completely unplayable today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1up has a hilarious article with kids trying out classic games (or perhaps &#8220;classic&#8221; games). About Adventure for the 2600: EGM: Do you identify with this dot character? Garret: No. The dot is small. I am not. Bobby: Yeah. My best friend, he looks just like this dot: small, handsome and adventurous. EGM: How long &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2004\/12\/30\/do-you-identify-with-this-dot-character\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Do you identify with this dot character?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}