{"id":213,"date":"2005-10-11T10:22:19","date_gmt":"2005-10-11T08:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.dk\/ludologist\/?p=213"},"modified":"2005-10-11T10:22:34","modified_gmt":"2005-10-11T08:22:34","slug":"another-take-at-video-game-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2005\/10\/11\/another-take-at-video-game-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Take on Video Game History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ars Technica has a new article up on <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/articles\/paedia\/gaming-evolution.ars\/1\">The evolution of gaming: computers, consoles, and arcade<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This one&#8217;s slightly different in that it takes individual genres and trace their history, screenshots and all.<\/p>\n<p>The genres here are the slightly idiosyncratic Sports \/ Space Combat \/ MMORPG \/ Adventure \/ Driving \/ Turn-based strategy \/ Simulation \/ RPG \/ Platform \/ FPS \/ Real-time strategy.<\/p>\n<p>As a European, the focus on Apple II and TRS-80 is weird as they hardly existed in these quarters &#8211; gaming history was Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum and later Amiga \/ Atari ST (the latter especially in the UK I think).<\/p>\n<p>Somebody needs to write the big global history at some point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ars Technica has a new article up on The evolution of gaming: computers, consoles, and arcade. This one&#8217;s slightly different in that it takes individual genres and trace their history, screenshots and all. The genres here are the slightly idiosyncratic Sports \/ Space Combat \/ MMORPG \/ Adventure \/ Driving \/ Turn-based strategy \/ Simulation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2005\/10\/11\/another-take-at-video-game-history\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Another Take on Video Game History&#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-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","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=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}