{"id":840,"date":"2012-01-24T11:13:28","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T16:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=840"},"modified":"2012-01-24T11:22:39","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T16:22:39","slug":"10-educational-computer-games-of-the-1980s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/840\/10-educational-computer-games-of-the-1980s","title":{"rendered":"Educational Computer Games of the 1980s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/slideshow\/story\/293124\/10-educational-pc-games-of-the-1980s\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/pcmag\/educational_small.jpg\" alt=\"10 Educational PC Games of the 1980s\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on the web (PCMag), I&#8217;ve got a slideshow up that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/slideshow\/story\/293124\/10-educational-pc-games-of-the-1980s\" target=\"_blank\">celebrates educational computer games of the 1980s<\/a>.  You know &#8212; those games like <em>Oregon Trail<\/em> and <em>Number Munchers<\/em> you played for exactly 30 minutes a week at the school computer lab between <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Logo_%28programming_language%29\" target=\"_blank\">Logo<\/a> binges.<\/p>\n<p>Like all my slideshows, expect nostalgia aplenty.  Unless you didn&#8217;t grow up in the 1980s.  In that case, you&#8217;ll probably absolutely hate this slideshow.  Avoid it at all costs!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elsewhere on the web (PCMag), I&#8217;ve got a slideshow up that celebrates educational computer games of the 1980s. You know &#8212; those games like Oregon Trail and Number Munchers you played for exactly 30 minutes a week at the school computer lab between Logo binges. Like all my slideshows, expect nostalgia aplenty. Unless you didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,7,9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-computer-info-and-history","category-retrogaming","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840","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=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}