{"id":7742,"date":"2013-08-28T13:33:52","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T18:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=7742"},"modified":"2013-08-28T13:34:48","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T18:34:48","slug":"the-creation-of-missile-command","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/28\/the-creation-of-missile-command\/","title":{"rendered":"The Creation of Missile Command"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polygon.com\/features\/2013\/8\/15\/4528228\/missile-command-dave-theurer\">Alex Rubens<\/a>:<\/p><blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.polygon.com\/features\/2013\/8\/15\/4528228\/missile-command-dave-theurer\"><p>One of the biggest changes made because of reactions gathered during a standard field test was the removal of a light-filled panel on the Missile Command cabinet above the player&rsquo;s head. This panel displayed flashing lights that served as status indicators for each of the in-game bases, but during the field test, Theurer found that it distracted players too much. &ldquo;They kept looking up to check the status lights and stuff, so we just chopped off the whole top of the cabinet and saved ourselves a whole lot of money and it didn&rsquo;t hurt the gameplay any,&rdquo; says Theurer.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Rubens:One of the biggest changes made because of reactions gathered during a standard field test was the removal of a light-filled panel on the Missile Command cabinet above the player&rsquo;s head. This panel displayed flashing lights that served as status indicators for each of the in-game bases, but during the field test, Theurer found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[551,418,295],"class_list":["post-7742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-atari","tag-game","tag-history"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7742"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7744,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7742\/revisions\/7744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}