{"id":36993,"date":"2004-12-15T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-15T07:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2004\/12\/15\/this-game-boy-wont-hurt-a-bit-just-help-the-powerpuff-girls-count-backwards-from-ten\/"},"modified":"2004-12-15T07:01:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-15T07:01:00","slug":"this-game-boy-wont-hurt-a-bit-just-help-the-powerpuff-girls-count-backwards-from-ten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20041215-00\/?p=36993","title":{"rendered":"This Game Boy won&#8217;t hurt a bit, just help the Powerpuff Girls count backwards from ten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is there nothing a Game Boy can&#8217;t do? We already learned that <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.asp.net\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2004\/05\/18\/134052.aspx\"> it can be played like a musical instrument<\/a>. Now we discover that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/local\/state\/ny-bc-nj--hospitals-gameboy1209dec09,0,709638.story\"> letting children play with a Game Boy before surgery is more effective than tranquilizers or a parent&#8217;s hand at keeping them calm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> You know <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sellsbrothers.com\/news\/showTopic.aspx?ixTopic=1617\"> when you go to the dentist<\/a> and she asks you, &#8220;What flavor fluoride rinse would you like?&#8221; Perhaps someday the anaesthetist will ask you, &#8220;Do you want a Game Boy or a Nintendo?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p> (Drat, <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/games\/04\/12\/10\/156228.shtml?tid=207\"> scooped by Slashdot again<\/a>.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is there nothing a Game Boy can&#8217;t do? We already learned that it can be played like a musical instrument. Now we discover that letting children play with a Game Boy before surgery is more effective than tranquilizers or a parent&#8217;s hand at keeping them calm. You know when you go to the dentist and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-36993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Is there nothing a Game Boy can&#8217;t do? We already learned that it can be played like a musical instrument. Now we discover that letting children play with a Game Boy before surgery is more effective than tranquilizers or a parent&#8217;s hand at keeping them calm. You know when you go to the dentist and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36993","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=36993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36993\/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=36993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}