{"id":19576,"date":"2013-05-02T18:58:25","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T23:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=19576"},"modified":"2013-05-02T18:58:25","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T23:58:25","slug":"surgeon-simulator-2013-joshs-medschool-exam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=19576","title":{"rendered":"Surgeon Simulator 2013: Josh&#8217;s Medschool Exam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bZ0O2qlxK70\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bZ0O2qlxK70'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>One interesting controversy about this game was that apparently some people were upset over the name. They saw &#8220;Surgeon <strong>Simulator<\/strong> 2013&#8243; and expected it to be, you know, a simulation. It&#8217;s like calling the 80&#8217;s classic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Au7UYaqpJw8\">Rampage<\/a>, &#8220;Sim City&#8221;. The game began as a goof &#8211; a flash based web game where the name of the game was part of the joke. But when you&#8217;re looking at a game in the context of a store, your assumptions change and a lot of people don&#8217;t expect the titale of a game to be ironic, hyperbolic, or absurdist. <\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t a big controversy or anything. It was more like a few unhappy comments. But I thought the confusion as a result of a change in context was interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the very early 90&#8217;s I did play a real surgeon simulation. I don&#8217;t remember the name, but I do remember it was HARD. Your first surgery is an appendectomy, and the game expected you to be able to locate and extract the appendix without carving up the patient like a Christmas ham. I failed on my first three tries because I was just a few inches off, and after cutting and fiddling around for a long time I&#8217;d finally get in there and find out I didn&#8217;t have the right angle to extract the appendix.  (Cutting a second incision would immediately end the operation with a message that another doctor was taking over.)<\/p>\n<p>So now we have two games that feature point-and-click surgery. That makes it a genre! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) One interesting controversy about this game was that apparently some people were upset over the name. They saw &#8220;Surgeon Simulator 2013&#8243; and expected it to be, you know, a simulation. It&#8217;s like calling the 80&#8217;s classic Rampage, &#8220;Sim City&#8221;. The game began as a goof &#8211; a flash based web game where the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[293],"class_list":["post-19576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-surgeon-simulator-2013"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19576","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=19576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}