{"id":204,"date":"2003-09-26T03:05:26","date_gmt":"2003-09-26T08:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2003\/09\/26\/a-blast-from-the-atari-past\/"},"modified":"2006-12-15T22:43:38","modified_gmt":"2006-12-16T03:43:38","slug":"a-blast-from-the-atari-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2003\/09\/26\/a-blast-from-the-atari-past\/","title":{"rendered":"A blast from the Atari Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a132'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was talking with a friend of mine about classic video games and he brought up E.T.  (I date myself by uttering that game) as being one of the &#8216;worst games ever&#8217;.  Considering I actually derived some entertainment and PLAYED E.T. and made progress on it I disagreed.  <br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tripoint.org\/sq\/sq1.gif\"><br \/> <br \/>\nI found one of the most opaque and probably lousy games was the SwordQuest series from Atari.  I could not figure out how to do ANYTHING in the game.  I mean I ran around and did stuff but progress?   Nope.   I really liked the comic idea story tied in with the game however the actual game itself really stunk.  However, on that note I decided to poke around for the old game and found this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tripoint.org\/sq\/sq.html\">site tribute<\/a>.  What a blast from the past.  Maybe after a couple of decades I can finally understand how the game was supposed to be played.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking with a friend of mine about classic video games and he brought up E.T. (I date myself by uttering that game) as being one of the &#8216;worst games ever&#8217;. Considering I actually derived some entertainment and PLAYED E.T. and made progress on it I disagreed. I found one of the most opaque [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":703,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/703"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}