{"id":278,"date":"2008-08-07T11:50:52","date_gmt":"2008-08-07T19:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/driph.com\/words\/?p=278"},"modified":"2008-08-07T11:51:27","modified_gmt":"2008-08-07T19:51:27","slug":"link-love-08-07-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/2008\/08\/link-love-08-07-08\/","title":{"rendered":"link love 08-07-08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notcot.com\/archives\/2008\/07\/game_libratory.php\">Game Libratory<\/a>. Library plus laboratory, the project aims to collect gaming hardware from the entire history of our industry, assembling it all in one place where it can be accessed for cultural studies and scientific use (and hopefully a LAN party or two). [via <a href=\"http:\/\/notes.torrez.org\/\">andre<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/feature\/3750\/a_history_of_gaming_platforms_.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"293\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/2008\/08\/link-love-08-07-08\/attachment\/400\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/400.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"500,100\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Atari 400 membrane keyboard\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/400-300x60.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/400.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/400.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Atari 400 membrane keyboard\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/400.jpg 500w, https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/400-300x60.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Matt Barton and Bill Loguidice&#8217;s excellent <em>A History of Gaming Platforms<\/em> series continues on Gamasutra, this time with a personal favorite of mine, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/feature\/3750\/a_history_of_gaming_platforms_.php\">the Atari 8-Bit Computer<\/a>. A book is in the works.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.us.playstation.com\/2008\/07\/31\/the-last-guy-is-here-to-rescue-you\/\">The Last Guy<\/a>, available soon on PSN, is a clever <em>rescue the civilians during the zombie apocalypse<\/em> game that uses real-world satellite maps for the gameplay stages. As a promo, they&#8217;ve released a <a href=\"http:\/\/lastguy.jp\/\">web version<\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/lastguy.jp\/game.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdriph.com%2Fwords&#038;x=65&#038;y=23\">builds the play level from a submitted web address<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Looking to fill out your Sega collection? CAG nebrazca78 is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cheapassgamer.com\/?f=322\">auctioning off<\/a> a ton of Genesis, 32X, and Master System gear. I&#8217;m gonna keep an eye on a couple of those 32X titles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Game Libratory. Library plus laboratory, the project aims to collect gaming hardware from the entire history of our industry, assembling it all in one place where it can be accessed for cultural studies and scientific use (and hopefully a LAN party or two). [via andre] Matt Barton and Bill Loguidice&#8217;s excellent A History of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[36,54,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlp","category-nostalgia","category-video-games"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions\/298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}