{"id":24793,"date":"2019-07-13T09:02:02","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T14:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=24793"},"modified":"2019-07-13T09:02:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T14:02:02","slug":"what-mame-cabinet-is-he-playing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/13\/what-mame-cabinet-is-he-playing\/","title":{"rendered":"What MAME Cabinet Is He Playing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A story at Hollywood in Toto claims <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/last-starfighter-video-game-movie-40\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018The Last Starfighter\u2019 \u2013 Still the Best Video Game Movie<\/a>, and I cannot argue with the premise as I have logically proven <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/29\/reasons-why-the-last-starfighter-is-better-than-star-wars\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Last Starfighter<\/em> is better than <em>Star Wars<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, I cannot trust any of the authors facts or assertions since he says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some helpful exposition clearly explains how the arcade game [The Last Starfighter] works (it\u2019s one of those fun shoot-em-ups with multiple joysticks, a la \u201cCentipede\u201d). <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sweet peas and chicks, Centipede is played with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcade-museum.com\/game_detail.php?game_id=7299\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a track ball and fire button<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But I guess not everyone has the advantage of a <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/30\/brian-j-s-a-10-strategy-for-getting-high-scores-at-the-local-arcade\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">local arcade<\/a> with original machines so one could actually have played the game in the last seven months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A story at Hollywood in Toto claims \u2018The Last Starfighter\u2019 \u2013 Still the Best Video Game Movie, and I cannot argue with the premise as I have logically proven The Last Starfighter is better than Star Wars. However, I cannot trust any of the authors facts or assertions since he says: Some helpful exposition clearly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24793"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24796,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24793\/revisions\/24796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}