{"id":1541,"date":"2007-06-07T05:11:25","date_gmt":"2007-06-07T10:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/in-russia-video-game-plays-you\/"},"modified":"2007-06-07T05:13:35","modified_gmt":"2007-06-07T10:13:35","slug":"in-russia-video-game-plays-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/in-russia-video-game-plays-you","title":{"rendered":"In Russia, video game plays you!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I doubt any of these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/gaming\/hardware\/news\/2007\/06\/soviet_games\" target=\"_blank\">Cold War Soviet video arcade games<\/a> are as good as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rush'n_Attack\" target=\"_blank\">Rush&#8217;n Attack<\/a>. (Which couldn&#8217;t hold a candle to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Contra_(arcade_game)\" target=\"_blank\">Contra<\/a>, of course. I especially liked the level where you had to circumvent a law against federal funding of the secret army. . .)<\/p>\n<p>That said, those commie sonsabitches did develop <a href=\"http:\/\/zone.tetris.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tetris<\/a>, which helped annihilate a generation of American college students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I doubt any of these Cold War Soviet video arcade games are as good as Rush&#8217;n Attack. (Which couldn&#8217;t hold a candle to Contra, of course. I especially liked the level where you had to circumvent a law against federal funding of the secret army. . .) That said, those commie sonsabitches did develop Tetris, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/in-russia-video-game-plays-you\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In Russia, video game plays you!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-oR","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}