{"id":783,"date":"2012-10-23T12:17:20","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T11:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewthornway.com\/?p=783"},"modified":"2012-10-23T15:54:09","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T14:54:09","slug":"retro-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andrewthornway.com\/?p=783","title":{"rendered":"Retro thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With working and running around I don\u2019t seem to have played any computer \/ console games for a while \u2013 until the Play Expo in Manchester the other week, of course. That place seems to have given me the bug again. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To correct my mistake, I\u2019ve fired up Tekken 4 on the recently dusted PS2 (&#8216;Ultra Hard&#8217; setting, obv!), which is great, but annoying. I\u2019m experiencing that feeling that most gamers probably have had, where you were once pretty much invincible at a game, then don\u2019t play it for ages, then return, expecting to be the master, however you get your backside well and truly kicked. I know, I know \u2013 it just means I need more practise. (If you\u2019re waiting on tenterhooks for The Dragon Tongue book two I bet you\u2019re delighted to read this! Don\u2019t worry, writing comes first, however we\u2019ve all seen The Shining and we all know what \u2018all work and no play\u2019 does to a writer, right?)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Having the retro bug got me thinking about favourite games of all time. One of these is the (just slightly older than Tekken 4) masterpiece called Avalon, which was released in 1984 for the ZX Spectrum. I loved that game, but never finished it. (To have game saves back then!) I\u2019d be very happy if Sony released an emulator for the PS3 with tons of these gems. Anyway, here\u2019s a YouTube video walkthrough of one of the best games ever&#8230;. *projects soul*<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5D2iYcEAK-A?feature=player_detailpage\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With working and running around I don\u2019t seem to have played any computer \/ console games for a while \u2013 until the Play Expo in Manchester the other week, of course. That place seems to have given me the bug again. To correct my mistake, I\u2019ve fired up Tekken 4 on the recently dusted PS2 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/andrewthornway.com\/?p=783\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Retro thoughts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[128,127,121,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-andrew-thornway-home-page","tag-avalon","tag-ps2","tag-ps3","tag-tekken-4","tag-the-dragon-tongue-book-two","tag-zx-spectrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/andrewthornway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/andrewthornway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/andrewthornway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andrewthornway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andrewthornway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/andrewthornway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":816,"href":"http:\/\/andrewthornway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions\/816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/andrewthornway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andrewthornway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andrewthornway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}