{"id":610,"date":"2022-10-18T16:17:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T07:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/?p=610"},"modified":"2024-07-18T09:22:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T00:22:25","slug":"a-couple-of-clever-80s-game-arcade-memes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/2022\/10\/18\/a-couple-of-clever-80s-game-arcade-memes\/","title":{"rendered":"A couple of clever &#8217;80s game arcade memes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"564\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/your-childhood.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/your-childhood.png 564w, https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/your-childhood-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/your-childhood-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/your-childhood-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 564px) 100vw, 564px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"406\" height=\"509\" src=\"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/in-my-day.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/in-my-day.png 406w, https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/in-my-day-239x300.png 239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The first time I visited Japan was in 1998, and at that time all I saw were sit-down cabinets like the Sega Astro City, Taito Egret, Namco Cyberlead, etc. So, I was unaware that game centers here in Japan once had standing cabinets like America did until talking with my Japanese friend. He said that he would play Atari&#8217;s Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom in the &#8217;80s. Atari had some successes in Japan back in the &#8217;80s, especially Gauntlet and Marble Madness. And going back further, Breakout obviously made quite an impression in Japan, giving birth to the &#8220;block kuzushi&#8221; genre with Arkanoid being the most exemplary title. Dang, if only I could travel back in time, or at least Quantum Leap into my childhood self and relive those memories&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first time I visited Japan was in 1998, and at that time all I saw were sit-down cabinets like the Sega Astro City, Taito Egret, Namco Cyberlead, etc. So, I was unaware that game centers here in Japan once had standing cabinets like America did until talking with my Japanese friend. He said that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/2022\/10\/18\/a-couple-of-clever-80s-game-arcade-memes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A couple of clever &#8217;80s game arcade memes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,160,2],"tags":[161,65,12],"class_list":["post-610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-nostalgia","category-video-games","tag-80s","tag-game-arcades","tag-retrogaming"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":613,"href":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}