{"id":193,"date":"2003-10-22T07:17:48","date_gmt":"2003-10-22T07:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=193"},"modified":"2003-10-22T07:17:48","modified_gmt":"2003-10-22T07:17:48","slug":"kids-and-ancient-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/10\/kids-and-ancient-video-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids and ancient video games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bilskirnir.blogspot.com\/2003_10_01_bilskirnir_archive.html#106671987007838855\">Nathan  Cochrane describes<\/a> what happens when today&#8217;s kids play the first video games.  Funny stuff. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The gamers thought that the 1981 hit that established Nintendo as more than a company that could print playing cards, Donkey Kong, was &#8220;gay, but cool&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>  <b>EGM<\/b>: Who&#8217;s that chick Mario is rescuing up there?<br \/>\n<b>Brian<\/b>: It&#8217;s Princess Peach.<br \/>\n<b>Kirk<\/b>: It&#8217;s a hooker.<br \/>\n<b>Niko<\/b>: She looks cut in half. <br \/>\n<b>Tim<\/b>: Oh wow?she&#8217;s one of those pole dancers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Also check out his comments on the <a href=\"http:\/\/bilskirnir.blogspot.com\/2003_10_01_bilskirnir_archive.html#106671533987215645\">problems caused by technophobes and technophiles. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan Cochrane describes what happens when today&#8217;s kids play the first video games. Funny stuff. The gamers thought that the 1981 hit that established Nintendo as more than a company that could print playing cards, Donkey Kong, was &#8220;gay, but&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/10\/kids-and-ancient-video-games\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}