{"id":1001,"date":"2011-09-20T15:57:35","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T20:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/?p=1001"},"modified":"2011-09-20T15:57:35","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T20:57:35","slug":"first-there-was-pong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/?p=1001","title":{"rendered":"First there was Pong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#160; . . . then there was PacMan, Zork, Doom, Civilization, The Sims, World of Warcraft, Call of Duty and Angry Birds&#160;&#160; . . .<a href=\"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/image_thumb.png\" width=\"305\" height=\"425\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As time went by there were sequels to sequels but there were also, shall we say niche games.&#160; These games were not trying to appeal to the masses, they were targeting a very specific audience.&#160; Some of the more notable efforts were around simulations like Sim City,&#160; or Flight and Train Simulators.&#160; While browsing the interwebs I saw this \u201cgame\u201d.&#160; I think it has taken the simulation game to it\u2019s limits.&#160; This game appeals to a very specific form of sanitation worker, yes those guys who yearn to ware the orange vest that live to suck dirt \u2013 the Street Sweeper.&#160; Then can run right down to Best Buy and ask for \u201c<strong><em>Street Cleaning Simulator<\/em><\/strong>\u201d of course they will be told there is no such game and if there is they won\u2019t find it here.&#160; But there <em>is<\/em> such a game, buy it from Amazon,&#160; grab your hard hat and shinny vest, pop this into your PC and start sweeping.&#160; Go north AND south, just go crazy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#160; . . . then there was PacMan, Zork, Doom, Civilization, The Sims, World of Warcraft, Call of Duty and Angry Birds&#160;&#160; . . .<\/p>\n<p>As time went by there were sequels to sequels but there were also, shall we say niche games.&#160; These games were not trying to appeal to the masses, they were [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}