{"id":665,"date":"2010-06-01T10:36:53","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T15:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=665"},"modified":"2010-06-01T10:46:57","modified_gmt":"2010-06-01T15:46:57","slug":"the-evolution-of-video-game-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/665\/the-evolution-of-video-game-media","title":{"rendered":"The Evolution of Video Game Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/197429\/the_evolution_of_video_game_media.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/pcworld\/evolution_vgmedia_small.jpg\" alt=\"The Evolution of Video Game Media on PCWorld.com\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few days ago, PC World published my latest slideshow, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/197429\/the_evolution_of_video_game_media.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Evolution of Video Game Media<\/a>.  Many people probably missed it due to Memorial Day weekend, but I&#8217;m here to remind you that it exists.  It&#8217;s the third in my &#8220;Evolution&#8221; series of slideshows after &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/173033\/evolution_of_the_cell_phone.html\" target=\"_blank\">Evolution of the Cell Phone<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/631\" target=\"_blank\">The Evolution of Removable Storage<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For this slideshow, I scanned every type of video game storage media I have &#8212; about 66 different cartridges, optical discs, and magnetic disks in all.  I visually presented all of these formats to scale with each other between slides so you can get a sense of the size of each.  While I included media from a majority of the video game systems ever released, I didn&#8217;t include every single one.<\/p>\n<p>A large portion of the text was cut in edits for this slideshow (it&#8217;s hard to squeeze a lot of info into a small caption space), so I plan to publish the full text along with the images at a higher quality on <em>VC&#038;G<\/em> at some point in the future.  I hope you enjoy it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, PC World published my latest slideshow, The Evolution of Video Game Media. Many people probably missed it due to Memorial Day weekend, but I&#8217;m here to remind you that it exists. It&#8217;s the third in my &#8220;Evolution&#8221; series of slideshows after &#8220;Evolution of the Cell Phone&#8221; and &#8220;The Evolution of Removable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,13,22,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-nes-famicom","category-retrogaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665","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=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}