{"id":358,"date":"2007-08-21T19:48:09","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T18:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=358"},"modified":"2007-08-21T19:48:09","modified_gmt":"2007-08-21T18:48:09","slug":"game-breaks-arm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2007\/08\/21\/game-breaks-arm\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Breaks Arm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pretty amazing-looking Japanese arcade game Arm Spirit is being recalled after <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/6957339.stm\">three gamers have broken their arms playing it<\/a>. Here it is:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/44071000\/jpg\/_44071658_arm_ap_203b.jpg\" alt=\"Arm Spirit\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This comes at an unfortunate time, just a month before I leave for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digra2007.jp\">DiGRA <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/tgs.cesa.or.jp\/english\">Tokyo Game Show<\/a>. That&#8217;s life for you: Sometimes you just miss the boat, or the arm.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the interesting bit is actually the fact that it is being recalled due to three broken arms, and that I also instinctively believe that this is the right thing to do. It is assumed that games should be mostly harmless, and it is hard to argue otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>Games that actually hurt you just remain associated with dystopian sci-fi (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rollerball_%281975_film%29\">Rollerball<\/a>), but we wouldn&#8217;t want it here? Never?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pretty amazing-looking Japanese arcade game Arm Spirit is being recalled after three gamers have broken their arms playing it. Here it is: This comes at an unfortunate time, just a month before I leave for DiGRA and Tokyo Game Show. That&#8217;s life for you: Sometimes you just miss the boat, or the arm. Now, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2007\/08\/21\/game-breaks-arm\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Game Breaks Arm&#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-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","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=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}