{"id":508,"date":"2008-12-02T15:07:02","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T19:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=508"},"modified":"2008-12-02T15:08:07","modified_gmt":"2008-12-02T19:08:07","slug":"an-authentically-fake-look-at-computer-games-in-the-1980s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2008\/12\/02\/an-authentically-fake-look-at-computer-games-in-the-1980s\/","title":{"rendered":"An authentically fake look at computer games in the 1980&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the contemporary British spoof 1980&#8217;s educational TV program <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/comedy\/lookaroundyou\/\">Look Around You<\/a>, here&#8217;s an introduction to computer games:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/cBcrTucxiRc&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/cBcrTucxiRc&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I find its distortions  eerily accurate &#8211; the crazy assumptions about what would be the future of games and technology; the &#8220;graphics are very realistic&#8221;; the seriousness of the interviewer; the synthesizer music; the zany games (UK games were very zany at the time).<\/p>\n<p>(Via Kevin Driscoll.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the contemporary British spoof 1980&#8217;s educational TV program Look Around You, here&#8217;s an introduction to computer games: I find its distortions eerily accurate &#8211; the crazy assumptions about what would be the future of games and technology; the &#8220;graphics are very realistic&#8221;; the seriousness of the interviewer; the synthesizer music; the zany games (UK &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2008\/12\/02\/an-authentically-fake-look-at-computer-games-in-the-1980s\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An authentically fake look at computer games in the 1980&#8217;s&#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-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","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=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}