{"id":11871,"date":"2018-01-27T14:03:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T19:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=11871"},"modified":"2018-02-03T19:37:47","modified_gmt":"2018-02-04T00:37:47","slug":"best-video-games-from-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/best-video-games-from-1983\/","title":{"rendered":"Best computer games from 1985"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My 2 favourite computer games from when I was a kid are available on the web.<\/p>\n<p>The computer we had at the time was a Commodore 128. Other games I played include Bruce Lee, Impossible Mission, Jumpman, and Space Taxi.<\/p>\n<h3>Lode Runner<\/h3>\n<p>You control a guy who moves around and collects gold. You have to avoid the bad guys or dig holes for them to fall into &#8212; when they&#8217;re in a hole you can run across their heads. It had 150 levels plus a way for you to create your own levels. It was originally made by a company called Broderbund. It&#8217;s available here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/loderunnerwebgame.com\/game\/\">Lode Runner Web Game<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Zork<\/h3>\n<p>This is a text adventure game, which means you type in commands like &#8220;go north&#8221; or &#8220;get lamp&#8221; or &#8220;kill troll with sword&#8221;. You had to draw a map of how to get from room to room, otherwise you&#8217;d get lost. The object was to collect all the treasures and put them in one place &#8212; there was a limit to how much you could carry at one time. It was originally made by a company called Infocom. It&#8217;s available here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/textadventures.co.uk\/games\/play\/5zyoqrsugeopel3ffhz_vq\">Zork<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some information about the game and its successors:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/feature\/1499\/the_history_of_zork.php?print=1\">The History of Zork<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My 2 favourite computer games from when I was a kid are available on the web. The computer we had at the time was a Commodore 128. Other games I played include Bruce Lee, Impossible Mission, Jumpman, and Space Taxi. Lode Runner You control a guy who moves around and collects gold. You have to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,22],"tags":[57,98],"class_list":["post-11871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","category-my-thoughts","tag-games","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11871"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11918,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11871\/revisions\/11918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}