{"id":213,"date":"2004-05-22T19:01:18","date_gmt":"2004-05-22T19:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2004\/05\/up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right-b-a-b-a-start\/"},"modified":"2004-05-22T19:01:18","modified_gmt":"2004-05-22T19:01:18","slug":"up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right-b-a-b-a-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2004\/05\/22\/up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right-b-a-b-a-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A B A Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I KNEW I wasn&#8217;t wasting my time, spending so many hours killing goombas, orcs, and terrorists! If only my parents had encouraged me, I could be <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article_email\/0,,SB108508466637517166-IVjgINhlad3m52rZYCIa6aGm4,00.html\">making the big bucks in Korea<\/a> (thanks to Chris for the link). Does anyone remember that movie where a kid has to battle the rich kid who uses a Nintendo Power Glove (TM) in a video game tournament? That idea crashed and burned, didn&#8217;t it. Kind of like the robot and gyroscope that came with the NES. Back then, who would have predicted that the common mouse and keyboard would still be the gamer&#8217;s choice of equipment four years past 2000? I was hoping for electrodes to read my brainwaves, or something a little more advanced than a glorified typewriter interface&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I KNEW I wasn&#8217;t wasting my time, spending so many hours killing goombas, orcs, and terrorists! If only my parents had encouraged me, I could be making the big bucks in Korea (thanks to Chris for the link). Does anyone remember that movie where a kid has to battle the rich kid who uses a &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2004\/05\/22\/up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right-b-a-b-a-start\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}