{"id":13749,"date":"2004-12-30T23:25:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-30T23:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/30\/childs-play\/"},"modified":"2004-12-30T23:25:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-30T23:25:00","slug":"childs-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/30\/childs-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Child&#8217;s Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, <i>Electronic Gaming Monthly<\/i> magazine had a feature in which they got kids to play classic arcade and console games, eliciting some pretty frank comments of disgust from kids used to the much higher-tech games around today.  The feature was popular enough that they have posted the results from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1up.com\/do\/feature?pager.offset=0&amp;cId=3137498\" target=\"_blank\">Child&rsquo;s Play Part II<\/a>, in which kids&rsquo; hilarious reactions to <i>Mike Tyson&rsquo;s Punch Out<\/i> (NES), <i>Adventure<\/i> (Atari), <i>The Legend Of Zelda<\/i> (NES), <i>Star Wars<\/i> (arcade), <i>Defender<\/i> (arcade), <i>720\u00b0<\/i> (arcade), <i>Grand Theft Auto<\/i> (Playstation), <i>Gunstar Heroes<\/i> (Genesis), <i>Galaga<\/i> (arcade), and <i>Street Fighter II: Champion Edition<\/i> (arcade) are showcased. Here&rsquo;s one of my favorite exchanges, in this case about <i>Galaga<\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Electronic Gaming Monthly: Now imagine you&rsquo;ve reached the 10th stage, and you&rsquo;re on your last life. Once you die and you put another quarter in, you don&rsquo;t just continue from there-you start all over.<\/p>\n<p>Parker [age 11]: Are you serious?<\/p>\n<p>EGM: Yup. When you lose all your lives, you have to start over. You don&rsquo;t keep going.<\/p>\n<p>Parker: And you guys back then were OK with this?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Man, I feel old&hellip; \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-110444914417575427?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Electronic Gaming Monthly magazine had a feature in which they got kids to play classic arcade and console games, eliciting some pretty frank comments of disgust from kids used to the much higher-tech games around today. The feature was popular enough that they have posted the results from Child&rsquo;s Play Part II, in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/30\/childs-play\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Child&#8217;s Play&#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":[118],"class_list":["post-13749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13749","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=13749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}