{"id":995,"date":"2010-01-03T15:53:11","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T21:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seanthorenson.wordpress.com\/?p=995"},"modified":"2015-01-01T07:07:40","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T12:07:40","slug":"video-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/video-gaming\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s astonishing how ubiquitous video games have become in today’s society.<\/strong> My boys frequently remind us how we are the only family in the civilized world that does NOT own a game system. Before you shed a tear for them, please know that they are not suffering. They do have supervised access to two computers and play video games on a somewhat regular basis.<\/p>\n

The graphic cards required by most games today are nothing short of miraculous in how they mimic reality. In spite of these advances, I have to laugh when I think of the good old Atari 2600 we grew up with. Commanding a blob of pixels to move orthogonally through a multi-colored lego-like universe, with paddle or some-time functioning joystick, was impressive to us. We could play Combat, Asteroids, Missile Command, Pitfall and Breakout for hours at a time. I doubt that the crude compilation of chunky pixels that comprised most game graphics of the early 80s would hold a kid’s attention for more than 2 nanoseconds today. It would be interesting to see the sales demographics for the re-release of some of those classic games I grew up with. I have a suspicion that most were sold to “kids” my age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s astonishing how ubiquitous video games have become in today’s society. My boys frequently remind us how we are the only family in the civilized world that does NOT own a game system. Before you shed a tear for them, please know that they are not suffering. They do have supervised access to two computers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[20,62],"tags":[237,238,113],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kids","category-memories","tag-atari","tag-breakout","tag-video-games"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3XRuE-g3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7919,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions\/7919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}