{"id":402,"date":"2007-12-11T12:54:55","date_gmt":"2007-12-11T17:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=402"},"modified":"2007-12-11T13:13:35","modified_gmt":"2007-12-11T18:13:35","slug":"atari-2600-turns-30-on-1upcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/402\/atari-2600-turns-30-on-1upcom","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Atari 2600 Turns 30&#8221; on 1UP.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.1up.com\/do\/feature?cId=3164058\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/1UP\/stella_30th_small.jpg\" alt=\"Atari 2600 30th Article on 1UP\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Atari&#8217;s venerable VCS (2600) turned 30 this year, and 1UP asked me to write a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1up.com\/do\/feature?cId=3164058\" target=\"_blank\">feature about the console&#8217;s influence and impact on the industry<\/a>.  I finished the piece in October, but it didn&#8217;t go up until a few weeks ago.  I haven&#8217;t checked to see if 1UP changed much from my original version, but if it&#8217;s anything like it, the article should be worth the read for all video game fans.<\/p>\n<p>The piece contains some original analysis of the 2600&#8217;s impact that you won&#8217;t likely find anywhere else.  For example, did you know that the first video game based on licensed non-video game IP was <em>Superman<\/em> for the Atari VCS in 1979?  If that comes as a surprise to you, you&#8217;ll want to read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1up.com\/do\/feature?cId=3164058\" target=\"_blank\">rest of the article<\/a>.  Even diehard Atari fiends might learn something new.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atari&#8217;s venerable VCS (2600) turned 30 this year, and 1UP asked me to write a feature about the console&#8217;s influence and impact on the industry. I finished the piece in October, but it didn&#8217;t go up until a few weeks ago. I haven&#8217;t checked to see if 1UP changed much from my original version, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,21,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-news-current-events","category-retrogaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}