{"id":771,"date":"2013-05-22T23:02:15","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T03:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scrollboss.illmosis.net\/blog\/?p=771"},"modified":"2020-05-21T14:31:27","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T18:31:27","slug":"happy-birthday-pac-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scrollboss.illmosis.net\/blog\/?p=771","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Pac-Man!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><CENTER><IMG SRC=\"ss\/gfxgen_2013-05-22_hbd-pacman.png\"><\/CENTER><\/p>\n<p>Pac-Man debuted in Japan on this day in 1980 and changed the world of video games. I&#8217;m old enough to have been alive and gaming when that coin-op machine hit the U.S. later that year and transmitted Pac-Man Fever to the point that even my grandmother liked the game. While those who tout story over gameplay still claim that gaming is still waiting for its &#8220;Wizard of Oz&#8221; moment, I&#8217;d argue that the way parents introduce their young&#8217;uns to the dot-eating hero has become just as much of a tradition as being off to see the Wizard.<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate, I made a quick little sprite of Chomp-Chomp, the Pac-family dog as he appeared in the Ruby-Spears cartoon that went on to inspire later official Pac-games. He&#8217;ll be added to the GFX Generators in the small site update later this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pac-Man debuted in Japan on this day in 1980 and changed the world of video games. I&#8217;m old enough to have been alive and gaming when that coin-op machine hit the U.S. later that year and transmitted Pac-Man Fever to the point that even my grandmother liked the game. While those who tout story over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16,13],"tags":[93,98],"class_list":["post-771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates-sb","category-sitenewsmain","category-updates","tag-namco","tag-pac-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scrollboss.illmosis.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scrollboss.illmosis.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scrollboss.illmosis.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scrollboss.illmosis.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scrollboss.illmosis.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/scrollboss.illmosis.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2459,"href":"https:\/\/scrollboss.illmosis.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions\/2459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scrollboss.illmosis.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scrollboss.illmosis.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scrollboss.illmosis.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}