{"id":489,"date":"2010-01-04T17:54:44","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T23:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/handyvandal.com\/?p=489"},"modified":"2010-02-23T22:25:29","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T04:25:29","slug":"arnie-katz-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/2010\/01\/arnie-katz-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Arnie Katz Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/katz_eg1.jpg\" alt=\"Electronic Gaming\" title=\"Electronic Gaming\" width=\"230\" height=\"313\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/katz_eg1.jpg 230w, https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/katz_eg1-220x300.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/>From an interview with Arnie Katz, co-founder of <em>Electronic Games<\/em> magazine, the first magazine dedicated entirely to video games:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>Gamasutra:<\/strong> Have you followed casual games in the past few years?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Katz:<\/strong> To be honest, I put 20 years in playing games day and night, practically. They would not let me play any game for too long. If I liked a game, they shamed me into not playing. I did not play a game in 20 years when I was not thinking how to write it up, or edit it. You do that for a long time, and for me&#8230; it didn&#8217;t exactly burn me out, but it did reduce my enthusiasm. <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/feature\/4226\/electronic_games_the_arnie_katz_.php?page=4\">Arnie Katz interview<\/a> @ Gamasutra: December 28, 2009\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an interview with Arnie Katz, co-founder of Electronic Games magazine, the first magazine dedicated entirely to video games: Gamasutra: Have you followed casual games in the past few years? Katz: To be honest, I put 20 years in playing games day and night, practically. They would not let me play any game for too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,92,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-interviews","category-magazines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","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=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":743,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}