{"id":823,"date":"2011-12-12T10:45:54","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T15:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=823"},"modified":"2011-12-12T11:21:23","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T16:21:23","slug":"40-years-of-computer-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/823\/40-years-of-computer-space","title":{"rendered":"40 Years of Commercial Video Games \/ Computer Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2011\/12\/11\/computer-space-and-the-dawn-of-the-arcade-video-game\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/technologizer\/computerspace_soylent_small.jpg\" alt=\"Computer Space Turns 40\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You may not have noticed, but commercial video games turned 40 years old just recently.  To celebrate, I&#8217;ve written an <a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2011\/12\/11\/computer-space-and-the-dawn-of-the-arcade-video-game\/\" target=\"_blank\">in-depth history of Computer Space<\/a>, the first mass-produced video game and the first true arcade video game, which launched in 1971.  Those daring enough among you to read over 500 words in one sitting can <a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2011\/12\/11\/computer-space-and-the-dawn-of-the-arcade-video-game\/\" target=\"_blank\">find the piece<\/a> over at Technologizer.com.  I hope you enjoy it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may not have noticed, but commercial video games turned 40 years old just recently. To celebrate, I&#8217;ve written an in-depth history of Computer Space, the first mass-produced video game and the first true arcade video game, which launched in 1971. Those daring enough among you to read over 500 words in one sitting can [&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-823","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\/823","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=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}