{"id":13424,"date":"2012-09-13T20:18:44","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T01:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=13424"},"modified":"2012-09-13T20:18:44","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T01:18:44","slug":"anyone-for-a-game-of-pong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/13\/anyone-for-a-game-of-pong\/","title":{"rendered":"Anyone for a game of pong?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I look at the Atari Arcade, I get a bunch of gobbledygook but if I click on individual links to individual games, I get an interesting experiment in HTML 5.0 demonstrating old fashioned character-based-graphic style games.  Here are the links, but I suggest right-clicking and opening in a new window or tab so you can more cleanly shut them down if you get stuck.  In other words, attempting to use the most advanced web-based programming language\/markup tool to emulate ancient games is kind of like Dr. Who crossing his own time line and all sorts of bad things can happen.<\/p>\n<h3>The Atari Arcade<\/h3>\n<pre><code>&lt;ul&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atari.com\/arcade#!\/arcade\/pong\/\">Pong<\/a><\/li>\n<pre><code>&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=\"http:\/\/www.atari.com\/arcade#!\/arcade\/asteroids\/\"&gt;Asteroids&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/li&gt;\n\n&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=\"http:\/\/www.atari.com\/arcade#!\/arcade\/missilecommand\/\"&gt;Missile Command&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/li&gt;\n\n&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=\"http:\/\/www.atari.com\/arcade#!\/arcade\/superbreakout\/\"&gt;Super Breakout&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/li&gt;\n\n&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=\"http:\/\/www.atari.com\/arcade#!\/arcade\/lunarlander\/play\"&gt;Lunar Lander &lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/li&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When I was in Middle School, I wrote my own TTY aware Lunar Lander program that ran on a Univac 1108, and later, a version of Pong that ran on a TRS80.  What did you do in Middle School?<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/category\/technology\/\">More Technology Blog Posts Here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I look at the Atari Arcade, I get a bunch of gobbledygook but if I click on individual links to individual games, I get an interesting experiment in HTML 5.0 demonstrating old fashioned character-based-graphic style games. Here are the links, but I suggest right-clicking and opening in a new window or tab so you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/13\/anyone-for-a-game-of-pong\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Anyone for a game of pong?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[],"tags":[57],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-3uw","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}