{"id":303,"date":"2008-12-02T07:40:27","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T15:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.systemshutdown.com\/wp\/?p=303"},"modified":"2008-12-02T07:40:27","modified_gmt":"2008-12-02T15:40:27","slug":"going-back-to-play-some-old-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/going-back-to-play-some-old-games","title":{"rendered":"Going Back to Play Some Old Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kings-bounty.com\/eng\/img\/newspic13.jpg\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"141\" height=\"127\" \/>I recently picked up some used PC games off of a guy on <a href=\"http:\/\/vancouver.en.craigslist.ca\/tag\/937486268.html\">Craig&#8217;s List<\/a>.  It was a good deal and I&#8217;m looking forward to playing some games that won&#8217;t have me thinking &#8220;<em>Gee, maybe I should upgrade soon<\/em>.&#8221;  The list includes: Freedom Force vs. the 3rd Reich, Gangland, Mafia, Rainbow 6: Ravenshield, Deus Ex, Ground Control II, Vampire Masquerade Bloodlines, Spellforce 2, etc, etc, etc.  Lots of good stuff.  Ok, so they&#8217;re probably not &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.systemshutdown.com\/wp\/ol-skool-game-revival-dosbox\">old<\/a>&#8221; by some gamer&#8217;s standings, but they&#8217;re certainly not cutting edge.  I guess the really old stuff required DosBox.<\/p>\n<p>I installed one of the unfamiliar games yesterday.  Although the interface was pretty clunky, by today&#8217;s standards, there was still quite a bit of innovation to take note of.  Like steering a character as your run around, but the moment you let go of the arrow keys, the mouse cursor becomes a floating hand to manipulate objects in the environment.  Perfect for an RPG.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, you can expect me to post some more findings as I shovel through these games.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Troy for the hook up and the recommendation of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kings-bounty.com\">King&#8217;s Bounty<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently picked up some used PC games off of a guy on Craig&#8217;s List. It was a good deal and I&#8217;m looking forward to playing some games that won&#8217;t have me thinking &#8220;Gee, maybe I should upgrade soon.&#8221; The list includes: Freedom Force vs. the 3rd Reich, Gangland, Mafia, Rainbow 6: Ravenshield, Deus Ex, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[37,100,145],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-craigs-list","tag-pc","tag-video-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}