{"id":29,"date":"2009-09-15T12:36:45","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T18:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/handyvandal.com\/?p=29"},"modified":"2010-02-23T22:19:23","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T04:19:23","slug":"computer-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/2009\/09\/computer-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/computer-space-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Computer Space: first commercially available coin-op video game\" title=\"Computer Space: first commercially available coin-op video game\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-28\" srcset=\"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/computer-space-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/computer-space.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>Now this is a beautiful thing: <\/p>\n<p><strong>Computer Space<\/strong>, the world&#8217;s first commercially-sold coin-operated video game. Recently for sale on Ebay! <\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t you wish you owned one?  I know I do!<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/09\/14\/computer-space-on-eb.html\">BoingBoing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Computer_Space\">Computer Space<\/a> @ Wikipedia.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t believe I&#8217;ve ever actually seen Computer Space. I suppose it&#8217;s possible &#8212; I haunted more than a few video arcades, back in the seventies &#8212; but I&#8217;m certain I never played it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now this is a beautiful thing: Computer Space, the world&#8217;s first commercially-sold coin-operated video game. Recently for sale on Ebay! Don&#8217;t you wish you owned one? I know I do! Via BoingBoing. See Computer Space @ Wikipedia. I don&#8217;t believe I&#8217;ve ever actually seen Computer Space. I suppose it&#8217;s possible &#8212; I haunted more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coin-operated","category-video-games","category-vintage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":694,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}