{"id":1102,"date":"2014-07-30T06:07:10","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T13:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=1102"},"modified":"2014-07-30T06:07:10","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T13:07:10","slug":"atari-game-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/30\/atari-game-over\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAtari: Game Over\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll say it again: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2012\/08\/thank-god-e-t-sucked.html\">Thank God E.T. sucked<\/a>, because otherwise Russell Brown might never have gotten laid off, joined a startup called Adobe, helped revolutionize an industry, and years later save me from layoff &amp; open the door to my joining Photoshop.<\/p>\n<p>In any event, this documentary about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/E.T._the_Extra-Terrestrial_(video_game)\">the notorious game<\/a>\u2019s rushed development from lab to landfill could be fascinating:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rIaWAyHIqok\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rIaWAyHIqok<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rIaWAyHIqok\">YouTube<\/a>] [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/xbox-produced-atari-game-over-documentary-gets-fir\/1100-6421324\/?utm_content=buffer08506&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\">Via<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll say it again: Thank God E.T. sucked, because otherwise Russell Brown might never have gotten laid off, joined a startup called Adobe, helped revolutionize an industry, and years later save me from layoff &amp; open the door to my joining Photoshop. In any event, this documentary about the notorious game\u2019s rushed development from lab [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1103,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions\/1103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}