{"id":1049,"date":"2011-12-29T21:38:37","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T04:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2011-12-29T21:38:37","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T04:38:37","slug":"let-the-games-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/archives\/1049","title":{"rendered":"Let the games begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been a gamer from the beginning. Good or bad, I&#8217;m old enough to have lived through the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Golden_age_of_video_arcade_games\">golden age of video games<\/a> during my formative years. It was a great way to spend far too much money (and kept me off the streets). Yes, I work in the video game industry (coincidence?), but I believe that some of the most creative games were created &#8216;back in the day&#8217; due to the fact there were so few rules and genres to be hampered by.<\/p>\n<p>The golden age is coming back for me due to some fortunate recent events. First, iMAME, a version of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mamedev.org\/\">MAME<\/a> (an arcade emulator), was released for the iPad a week ago which only lasted for a day before being pulled by Apple in the App Store (presumably for copyright concerns). I was able to get a copy prior to it disappearing. Second, I just submitted an order for a half-price ION Audio <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ionaudio.com\/products\/details\/icade\">iCade<\/a> which is supported by many games on the iPad, including iMAME.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to giving some of my favorite games a spin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been a gamer from the beginning. Good or bad, I&#8217;m old enough to have lived through the golden age of video games during my formative years. It was a great way to spend far too much money (and kept &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/archives\/1049\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":[12,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-geek"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vft-gV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1051,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions\/1051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}