{"id":171,"date":"2006-04-15T22:56:20","date_gmt":"2006-04-16T03:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theholtsite.com\/?id=blog&p=171"},"modified":"2006-04-15T22:58:28","modified_gmt":"2006-04-16T03:58:28","slug":"old-school-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/171\/","title":{"rendered":"Old School Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been playing compouter games for awhile now, and I&#8217;ve had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thangorodrim.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Angband<\/a> for years (formerly called MacMoria).  It&#8217;s a role-playing game that&#8217;s only a few years newer than <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zork\" target=\"_blank\">Zork<\/a>, a text adventure game released in 1979 (that is ancient in computer game history).<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what makes this game so fun, but I&#8217;m playing it right now instead of Warcraft, which has amazing graphics and community play:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/blogpicts\/wow.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">A screenshot of World of Warcraft<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/blogpicts\/angband.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">A screenshot of Angband<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wow, games have come a long way in 15 years.  In Angband, you are an &#8220;at&#8221; symbol (@) running around instead of a full 3D model.  The thing is, the old game is just as fun as the new one!  I guess it leaves more to the imagination?<\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia has its own entry on Angband <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Angband_%28computer_game%29\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.  I met a guy in college who still plays this text-based game a lot!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been playing compouter games for awhile now, and I&#8217;ve had Angband for years (formerly called MacMoria). It&#8217;s a role-playing game that&#8217;s only a few years newer than Zork, a text adventure game released in 1979 (that is ancient in computer game history). I don&#8217;t know what makes this game so fun, but I&#8217;m playing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}