{"id":550,"date":"2003-12-23T00:43:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-23T00:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=550"},"modified":"2018-08-09T13:46:42","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T18:46:42","slug":"550","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/23\/550\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can&#8217;t Improve on Perfection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taito&#8217;s bringing back Space Invaders, <a href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/id\/2092798\/\" target=\"new\">Slate reports<\/a>.  Mattel&#8217;s remaking Electronic Football II.   Activision&#8217;s releasing their greatest hits in a single joystick you can hook up to your television.  The commentator acknowledges the creativity inherent in working in the tight technological media.  Good work.<\/p>\n<p>In today&#8217;s games, though, except for Civilization III,  the technology has outstripped the game play.   I mean, arcade games have dwindled to three genres: Gun games, side-by-side fighters, and driving (or airplane) simulators.  Home consoles have first person shooters and role playing games.  Where&#8217;s the creativity in frames per second?  Here&#8217;s a hint; it&#8217;s not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taito&#8217;s bringing back Space Invaders, Slate reports. Mattel&#8217;s remaking Electronic Football II. Activision&#8217;s releasing their greatest hits in a single joystick you can hook up to your television. The commentator acknowledges the creativity inherent in working in the tight technological media. Good work. In today&#8217;s games, though, except for Civilization III, the technology has outstripped [&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-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","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=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22208,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions\/22208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}