{"id":679,"date":"2010-08-02T10:38:20","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T15:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=679"},"modified":"2010-08-17T10:27:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T15:27:00","slug":"a-study-of-operating-system-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/679\/a-study-of-operating-system-games","title":{"rendered":"A Study of Operating System Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2010\/08\/01\/the-great-operating-system-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/technologizer\/osgames_small.png\" alt=\"The Great Operating System Games on Technologizer\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many computer operating systems throughout history have shipped with at least one free game &#8212;  <em>Solitaire<\/em> and <em>Minesweeper<\/em> are some of the most famous examples.  Knowing this, I thought I&#8217;d take a stroll through history and examine other OS pack-in games.<\/p>\n<p>I ended up with an amusing collection of over twenty games from 1971 to the present.  <a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2010\/08\/01\/the-great-operating-system-games\/\" target=\"_blank\">The resulting gallery<\/a> is up now on Technologizer.  I hope you enjoy it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many computer operating systems throughout history have shipped with at least one free game &#8212; Solitaire and Minesweeper are some of the most famous examples. Knowing this, I thought I&#8217;d take a stroll through history and examine other OS pack-in games. I ended up with an amusing collection of over twenty games from 1971 to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,7,21,9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-computer-info-and-history","category-news-current-events","category-retrogaming","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679","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=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}