{"id":20580,"date":"2013-08-06T16:46:35","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T21:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=20580"},"modified":"2013-08-06T16:46:35","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T21:46:35","slug":"experienced-points-the-game-crash-of-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=20580","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Points: The Game Crash of 2013?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My column this week <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/columns\/experienced-points\/10503-The-Game-Crash-of-2013\">compares the situation today with the Great Game Market Fail of 1983<\/a>. As I said on Twitter, I can&#8217;t think of a historical example where a business this big ($3.2 billion) fell this far (97%) in such a short time (less than two years) outside of war. <\/p>\n<p>On a personal note, I notice I don&#8217;t really have nostalgia for those Atari games the way Nintendo fans love their Famicom games. They were novel, but they weren&#8217;t really all that good or interesting, gameplay-wise. When I pine for the good old days of videogames, I&#8217;m usually thinking of the stuff in the 1998-2002 range and not my childhood. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My column this week compares the situation today with the Great Game Market Fail of 1983. As I said on Twitter, I can&#8217;t think of a historical example where a business this big ($3.2 billion) fell this far (97%) in such a short time (less than two years) outside of war. On a personal note, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[155],"class_list":["post-20580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column","tag-experienced-points"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20580","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=20580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}