{"id":28723,"date":"2006-12-13T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2006-12-13T10:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2006\/12\/13\/maybe-if-it-had-characters-and-stuff-and-different-levels-it-would-be-ok\/"},"modified":"2006-12-13T10:00:10","modified_gmt":"2006-12-13T10:00:10","slug":"maybe-if-it-had-characters-and-stuff-and-different-levels-it-would-be-ok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20061213-10\/?p=28723","title":{"rendered":"Maybe if it had characters and stuff and different levels, it would be OK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a classic series, Electronic Games Monthly plopped modern kids, ages 9 through 12, in front of classic video games: Pong, Donkey Kong, Tetris. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lyberty.com\/blog\/articles\/childs_play.htm\"> And then recorded their reactions<\/a>. Here, the kids are playing Tetris and appear to be obsessed with stuff blowing up.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p>  <b>Tim<\/b>: Which button do I press to make the blocks explode? <\/p>\n<p> <b>EGM<\/b>: Sorry, they don&#8217;t explode. <\/p>\n<p> <b>Becky<\/b>: This is boring. Maybe if it had characters and stuff and different levels, it would be OK. If things blew up or something or&mdash; <\/p>\n<p> <b>Sheldon<\/b>: If there were bombs. <\/p>\n<p> <b>Becky<\/b>: Yeah, or special bricks. Like, if a yellow brick touched a red brick it would blow up and you&#8217;d have to start over. <\/p>\n<p> <b>John<\/b>: Why haven&#8217;t I won yet? I&#8217;ve paired up so many of the same color. <\/p>\n<p> <b>EGM<\/b>: Don&#8217;t worry about colors. <\/p>\n<p> <b>John<\/b>: I just lined up six of the same color. Why didn&#8217;t they blow up? <\/p>\n<p> <b>EGM<\/b>: Nothing blows up. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> Best single line: &#8220;I&#8217;m sure everyone who made this game is dead by now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> The article was such a hit that they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1up.com\/do\/feature?pager.offset=0&amp;cId=3137498\"> did it again<\/a> the following year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a classic series, Electronic Games Monthly plopped modern kids, ages 9 through 12, in front of classic video games: Pong, Donkey Kong, Tetris. And then recorded their reactions. Here, the kids are playing Tetris and appear to be obsessed with stuff blowing up. Tim: Which button do I press to make the blocks explode? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-28723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>In a classic series, Electronic Games Monthly plopped modern kids, ages 9 through 12, in front of classic video games: Pong, Donkey Kong, Tetris. And then recorded their reactions. Here, the kids are playing Tetris and appear to be obsessed with stuff blowing up. Tim: Which button do I press to make the blocks explode? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}