{"id":1351,"date":"2007-01-02T12:59:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-02T20:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2007\/01\/02\/childs-play-not-the-charity\/"},"modified":"2007-01-02T12:59:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-02T20:59:00","slug":"childs-play-not-the-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2007\/01\/02\/childs-play-not-the-charity\/","title":{"rendered":"Child&#8217;s Play (not the charity)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/egm.1up.com\/\">Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM)<\/a> magazine gathered some kids between the ages of 10 and 13 to play classic video games like Pong and Tetris and give their opinions.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect many have seen this already, but I thought it was pretty damn funny.  Especially this transcript from the Space Invaders session:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Tim:<\/span> This is nothing compared to Grand Theft Auto III, because you can&#8217;t steal a taxi cab, pick up somebody, then drive into the ocean with him.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Kirk:<\/span> And you can&#8217;t pick up an AK-47 and go kill\u2014hey, those aliens on the top row, you use them in EGM for stuff.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">EGM:<\/span> Yeah, we use them to end our articles. They do kinda look like they&#8217;re from Space Invaders, don&#8217;t they?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Tim:<\/span> They&#8217;re going to sue you.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Kirk:<\/span> I&#8217;m sure everyone who made this game is dead by now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Part 1: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lyberty.com\/blog\/articles\/childs_play.htm\">http:\/\/www.lyberty.com\/blog\/articles\/childs_play.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Part 2: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1up.com\/do\/feature?pager.offset=0&amp;cId=3137498\">http:\/\/www.1up.com\/do\/feature?pager.offset=0&#038;cId=3137498<\/a><\/p>\n<p>~CKL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago, Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM) magazine gathered some kids between the ages of 10 and 13 to play classic video games like Pong and Tetris and give their opinions. I suspect many have seen this already, but I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}