{"id":12457,"date":"2006-07-24T22:06:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-24T22:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/07\/24\/learning-from-atari\/"},"modified":"2006-07-24T22:06:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-24T22:06:00","slug":"learning-from-atari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/07\/24\/learning-from-atari\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning From Atari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonsantamaria.com\/archive\/2006\/07\/20\/learning_from_atari.php\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"359\" alt=\"Atari 1981 ad\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/atari_1981.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>Jason Santa Maria has a great post entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonsantamaria.com\/archive\/2006\/07\/20\/learning_from_atari.php\" target=\"_blank\">Learning from Atari<\/a> in which he reminisces on the fact that although &ldquo;classic&rdquo; videogames used to be a lot less detailed, their advertising artwork still managed to stimulate your imagination enough so that you suspended your disbelief and &ldquo;put you in the mindset for what you were about to experience.&rdquo;  He took the time to scan in the entire Atari Game Catalog from 1981 and posted it to <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/jasonsantamaria\/sets\/72157594205133472\/\" target=\"_blank\">flickr<\/a> as an homage to the great artwork used in Atari&rsquo;s advertisements.  Awesome&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"tags\">tags:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/80s\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">80s<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/videogames\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">videogames<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/nostalgia\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">nostalgia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/art\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">art<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/images\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">images<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-115360549192719905?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Santa Maria has a great post entitled Learning from Atari in which he reminisces on the fact that although &ldquo;classic&rdquo; videogames used to be a lot less detailed, their advertising artwork still managed to stimulate your imagination enough so that you suspended your disbelief and &ldquo;put you in the mindset for what you were &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/07\/24\/learning-from-atari\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Learning From Atari&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}