{"id":493,"date":"2008-08-31T15:58:27","date_gmt":"2008-08-31T20:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=493"},"modified":"2025-01-17T18:39:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T23:39:42","slug":"video-games-are-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/493\/video-games-are-fun","title":{"rendered":"Video Games Are Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><small><em>A photo essay by Marty Pickleman, Grade 5<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<p>I like video games.  They are fun.<\/p>\n<p><img src='\/wp-content\/videocenter_small.jpg' alt='Video Games Are Fun' class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"linebreak\"><\/div>\n<p>Sometimes I carry my video games in a green box.<\/p>\n<p><img src='\/wp-content\/box1_small.jpg' alt=\"Video Games in a Box\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"linebreak\"><\/div>\n<p>I unfold them like this.<\/p>\n<p><img src='\/wp-content\/box2_small.jpg' alt=\"Video Games in a Box\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"linebreak\"><\/div>\n<p>My sister likes to scare me by hiding in the box and jumping out.<\/p>\n<p><img src='\/wp-content\/box3_small.jpg' alt=\"Video Games in a Box\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"linebreak\"><\/div>\n<p>If she beats me at Tetris, I fold her back up.<\/p>\n<p><img src='\/wp-content\/box1_small.jpg' alt=\"Video Games in a Box\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"linebreak\"><\/div>\n<p>If I win, she makes a bowl of chunky butter cubes.<\/p>\n<p><img src='\/wp-content\/popcorn_small.jpg' alt=\"Video Games in a Box\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"linebreak\"><\/div>\n<p>Sometimes my friends come over.<br \/>\nIf there isn&#8217;t enough room, we become tiny.<\/p>\n<p><img src='\/wp-content\/tiny_small.jpg' alt='Tiny Small Computer PC People' class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"linebreak\"><\/div>\n<p>If there&#8217;s too much room, we get really old.<\/p>\n<p><img src='\/wp-content\/old_small.jpg' alt='I Become Old' class=\"centered\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"linebreak\"><\/div>\n<p>Some days, I play video games without cords.<\/p>\n<p><img src='\/wp-content\/wireless_n64_small.jpg' alt='Wireless Nintendo 64' class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"linebreak\"><\/div>\n<p>Some days, I play them without looking at the TV.<\/p>\n<p><img src='\/wp-content\/truck_small.jpg' alt='Truck Video Game' class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src='\/wp-content\/nitro_small.jpg' alt='Nitro VTech' class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"linebreak\"><\/div>\n<p>And some days, I play them without sitting down.<\/p>\n<p><img src='\/wp-content\/gamer_small.jpg' alt='Having Fun' class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"linebreak\"><\/div>\n<p>Video games are fun.<\/p>\n<p><img src='\/wp-content\/fun_small.jpg' alt='Video Games are Fun' class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A photo essay by Marty Pickleman, Grade 5 I like video games. They are fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-humor","category-retrogaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3554,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions\/3554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}