{"id":257,"date":"2006-05-05T09:25:25","date_gmt":"2006-05-05T08:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=257"},"modified":"2006-05-05T09:25:25","modified_gmt":"2006-05-05T08:25:25","slug":"pinball-retro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2006\/05\/05\/pinball-retro\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinball Retro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News.com piece on <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Retro-gamers+tap+their+inner+pinball+wizards\/2100-1043_3-6068714.html?tag=nefd.lede\">collectors of vintage pinball machines<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And things just were sliiiighty better in the old days:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;(Pinball machines) are mass produced now&#8211;cheap,&#8221; complained Hal Erickson, a regular at the secret pinball &#8220;arcade.&#8221; According to Erickson, today&#8217;s pinball makers &#8220;buy licenses and time releases to the crest of a fad, like &#8216;Pirates of the Caribbean&#8217; or &#8216;Nascar.&#8217; They&#8217;ve gotten slicker, but the designs are not as creative and individual.&#8221;There&#8217;s a huge difference in the way the game is played, too. &#8220;It&#8217;s really grueling, higher speed and intense movement&#8230;You can burn yourself out on new games,&#8221; said Erickson, who said he was ranked among the top pinball players in the world in the early 1990s. &#8220;Older games are more sane.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article also has links to pinball emulation sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News.com piece on collectors of vintage pinball machines. And things just were sliiiighty better in the old days: &#8220;(Pinball machines) are mass produced now&#8211;cheap,&#8221; complained Hal Erickson, a regular at the secret pinball &#8220;arcade.&#8221; According to Erickson, today&#8217;s pinball makers &#8220;buy licenses and time releases to the crest of a fad, like &#8216;Pirates of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2006\/05\/05\/pinball-retro\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pinball Retro&#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-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","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=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}