{"id":24890,"date":"2019-08-08T06:22:11","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T11:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=24890"},"modified":"2019-08-08T06:22:11","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T11:22:11","slug":"another-victorious-turn-at-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/08\/another-victorious-turn-at-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Victorious Turn At 1984"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So last night, we went to the local arcade 1984, and I again made the leader board on two different games, although it might look like I was going in alphabetical order:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/1984scores.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I found that you didn&#8217;t even have to get through the second level on Space Invaders <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\">to beat the default high score.  And I got a higher score on Spyhunter than I did in <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/14\/am-i-in-the-video-gaming-elite-yet\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2017<\/a>, and as a bonus, I got it when I was showing one of my son&#8217;s friends how to play the game.<\/p>\n<p>I beat my previous high score on Elevator Action, but the current high score was almost 20,000, and I only got about 16,000.  I also tied the high score for Omega Race right as we were leaving; perhaps I&#8217;ll focus on that one next year as it looks pretty easy to play and perhaps dull enough that the cool kids leave it alone.<\/p>\n<p>Although it looks like 1984 thinned out its selection of games a little bit.  Perhaps as part of opening a location in Branson this year.  And the price has gone up.  Still, ten bucks for a couple of hours of video game time is worth it as long as you, you know, <em>play the video games<\/em>.  I think I again spent most of my time wandering around looking at video games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So last night, we went to the local arcade 1984, and I again made the leader board on two different games, although it might look like I was going in alphabetical order: I found that you didn&#8217;t even have to get through the second level on Space Invaders to beat the default high score. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24890","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=24890"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24892,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24890\/revisions\/24892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}