{"id":431,"date":"2008-03-02T13:46:22","date_gmt":"2008-03-02T18:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/431"},"modified":"2008-03-02T14:02:03","modified_gmt":"2008-03-02T19:02:03","slug":"journey-to-atlantis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/431\/journey-to-atlantis","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-One Inches of Atlantis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/atlantis_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/atlantis_small.jpg\" alt=\"Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes people ask me if I&#8217;ve played any good games recently.  At present, I must reply a resounding &#8220;YES!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The title I&#8217;m engaged in at the moment is one of the most fun computer games I&#8217;ve played in years.  It&#8217;s called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/game\/amiga\/indiana-jones-and-the-fate-of-atlantis\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis<\/em><\/a>, a graphical point-and-click released by LucasArts in 1992.  I&#8217;m playing it on my favorite MS-DOS computer, a generic 386SX with 4 megs of RAM and a 21&#8243; Mitsubishi Diamond Plus 100E monitor that I bought last year at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncsu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">NCSU<\/a> surplus sale for $1 (Yes, one whole dollar, and they have plenty more where that came from).<\/p>\n<p>Spielburg should have turned this game into a movie &#8212; or at least one with Atlantis in it &#8212; although I&#8217;m looking forward to the new Indy flick coming out later this year.  Anyway, I have to get back to the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes people ask me if I&#8217;ve played any good games recently. At present, I must reply a resounding &#8220;YES!&#8221; The title I&#8217;m engaged in at the moment is one of the most fun computer games I&#8217;ve played in years. It&#8217;s called Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, a graphical point-and-click released by LucasArts in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,7,13,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-computer-info-and-history","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-retrogaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","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=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}