{"id":27494,"date":"2021-01-12T16:49:07","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T22:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=27494"},"modified":"2021-01-12T07:02:18","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T13:02:18","slug":"in-researching-i-find-a-gap-in-the-noggle-atari-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/12\/in-researching-i-find-a-gap-in-the-noggle-atari-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"In Researching, I Find A Gap In The Noggle Atari Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I was researching my post for <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/12\/how-i-got-my-first-jazz-album\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">this morning<\/a> (that is, I searched the Internet for Private Eye Video Game or something), and I re-discovered the Atari 2600 video game <em>Private Eye<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/privateeyeatari.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I remember that game, too, although I am not sure who had it.  Jimmy?  Jimmy T.?  Someone else?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t actually have a copy of it and certainly have not seen it in the wild in the 20 some years that I&#8217;ve been acquiring things like it (although a lot less over the last decade&#8211;you don&#8217;t find stuff like this at garage sales any more, and you don&#8217;t even see things like it at antique malls, where common Atari cartridges are marked $7 or $10).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll keep my eyes open for it, but I&#8217;m not sanguine at my prospect of finding either of these games out.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I should start going to estate sales again.  Especially since I&#8217;m getting to the age where peers are dying, and they might be my best chance at getting a hold of things like these.<\/p>\n<p>And, brothers and sisters, watch out for my estate sale someday.  It will be quite the trove of miscellany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I was researching my post for this morning (that is, I searched the Internet for Private Eye Video Game or something), and I re-discovered the Atari 2600 video game Private Eye. I remember that game, too, although I am not sure who had it. Jimmy? Jimmy T.? Someone else? I don&#8217;t actually have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27494","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=27494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27495,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27494\/revisions\/27495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}