{"id":432,"date":"2004-04-05T20:55:03","date_gmt":"2004-04-05T20:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=432"},"modified":"2004-04-05T20:55:03","modified_gmt":"2004-04-05T20:55:03","slug":"you_see_a_board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=432","title":{"rendered":"YOU SEE A BOARDED-UP HOUSE TO THE WEST"},"content":{"rendered":"

Peter Gabriel is working on a Myst game<\/a>. Poor Peter, but his last album did kinda suck, so maybe he needs the money. I never could get into Myst. It struck me as a pretentious slide show with obscure puzzles. Which reminds me. I was poking through my hard drive and found my collection of old Infocom games<\/a>. Talk about old skool. Before you had your fancy Nintendos and Segas, there was Infocom. I used to spend hours in front of my old Apple IIe, slowly typing out commands like PUT BABEL FISH IN EAR or KILL GNU WITH CROWBAR. i was always bugging my dad to get me the latest Infocom adventure when they came out. And then, a couple months later, the hint book with the invisible ink clues. I think I liked them because even though they were text-based games, they were so well-written that I could clearly see those places in my mind’s eye. When I look at them now, it’s with a mixture of nostalgia and respect. Games are a thousand times more sophisticated today, but I’ve rarely been immersed in them like I was when I was twelve, bathed in the green glow of a monitor and making friends with a robot named Floyd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Peter Gabriel is working on a Myst game. Poor Peter, but his last album did kinda suck, so maybe he needs the money. I never could get into Myst. It struck me as a pretentious slide show with obscure puzzles. Which reminds me. I was poking through my hard drive and found my collection of […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","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-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-6Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}