{"id":1012,"date":"2007-03-08T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2007-03-08T17:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1012"},"modified":"2008-08-16T10:15:20","modified_gmt":"2008-08-16T15:15:20","slug":"8-bits-of-spacewar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1012","title":{"rendered":"8 Bits of Spacewar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I <a href=\"?p=1003\">mentioned<\/a> the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatgamesexperiment.com\">Great Games Experiment<\/a>.  The site has listings a-list PC titles, console titles, flash games, freeware, indie stuff, abandonware, etc etc.  One in a while I&#8217;ll run into an entry like this one: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatgamesexperiment.com\/game\/8bitsofspacewar\">8 Bits of Spacewar<\/a>. It&#8217;s supposed to depict 8-bit gaming.  The game does a good job of re-creating the look &#038; feel of arcade games of the mid-80&#8217;s.  Look at the bottom of that page under system requirements:<\/p>\n<p><tt>System Requirements<br \/>\n- Windows Vista or older Windows with .NET 2.0 and DX9.0c<br \/>\n- 3GHz or higher CPU<br \/>\n- Graphics card with shader model 3.0<\/tt><\/p>\n<p>It is totally, absolutely, and in all ways, preposterous.  Requiring a next-gen computer to run a game with 20 year old graphics is <em>loco<\/em>. How do you mess something up this bad? Whats next? A version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nethack.org\/\">Nethack<\/a> that requires a dual-core machine with a terrabyte of memory to run smoothly?<\/p>\n<p>Sigh. I&#8217;m sure whoever made this thing will be working at a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.obsidianent.com\/\">major<\/a> game <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bethsoft.com\/\">house<\/a> in a couple of years, making an RPG that requires a $2,000 PC to play.<\/p>\n<p>Egads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I mentioned the Great Games Experiment. The site has listings a-list PC titles, console titles, flash games, freeware, indie stuff, abandonware, etc etc. One in a while I&#8217;ll run into an entry like this one: 8 Bits of Spacewar. It&#8217;s supposed to depict 8-bit gaming. The game does a good job [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-1012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}