{"id":39293,"date":"2004-05-18T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-18T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2004\/05\/18\/the-coolest-thing-you-can-do-with-a-gameboy-is-not-play-a-game-on-it\/"},"modified":"2004-05-18T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-18T07:00:00","slug":"the-coolest-thing-you-can-do-with-a-gameboy-is-not-play-a-game-on-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20040518-00\/?p=39293","title":{"rendered":"The coolest thing you can do with a Gameboy is not &quot;play a game on it&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  From  Public Radio International,  <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nextbigthing.org\/\">The Next Big Thing<\/a><\/i>  covers  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glomag.com\/gameboymatch\/\">The Gameboy Music Match<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>  These days, a lot of electronic music is performed directly  off of a laptop, which most people complain looks a lot like  someone up there on stage checking their email.  But Gameboy music isn&#8217;t just for listening.  It&#8217;s also a performance.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nullsleep.com\/\">  Nullsleep<\/a> plays with both thumbs   tapping, both feet moving, and head swaying.  Okay, yeah, it looks like he&#8217;s playing a video game.  But a <strong>really great<\/strong>  video game.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nextbigthing.org\/archive\/episode.html?05092003\">  Read the episode rundown<\/a> or listen directly to the fourth story,  <a href=\"http:\/\/stream.realimpact.net\/rihurl.ram?file=realimpact\/wnyc\/nbt\/nbt051003d.ra\">  Hot GameBoy Music Club<\/a>.  (The story was re-run a year later under the much catchier title  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nextbigthing.org\/archive\/episode.html?04162004\">  New Old Sounds<\/a>.)  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Public Radio International, The Next Big Thing covers The Gameboy Music Match. These days, a lot of electronic music is performed directly off of a laptop, which most people complain looks a lot like someone up there on stage checking their email. But Gameboy music isn&#8217;t just for listening. It&#8217;s also a performance. Nullsleep [&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-39293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>From Public Radio International, The Next Big Thing covers The Gameboy Music Match. These days, a lot of electronic music is performed directly off of a laptop, which most people complain looks a lot like someone up there on stage checking their email. But Gameboy music isn&#8217;t just for listening. It&#8217;s also a performance. Nullsleep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39293","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=39293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39293\/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=39293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}