{"id":875,"date":"2005-07-06T22:39:55","date_gmt":"2005-07-07T05:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=875"},"modified":"2008-07-16T17:49:15","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T22:49:15","slug":"game-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=875","title":{"rendered":"Game On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of gaming systems, we bought a used Nintendo 64 today and a couple of games. We got something called an expansion pack for the unit, and for some reason the girl who rang us up didn&#8217;t charge us for it. I don&#8217;t think it was a mistake because she had just finished installing the expansion pack right before ringing up our order. So we got the unit, the expansion pack, one controller and two games for $22. <\/p>\n<p>I also bought an Atari game, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vgmuseum.com\/images\/2600\/02\/freeway.html\">Freeway<\/a>, for 99&cent; to test out the Atari 2600 my mom gave me this weekend. It had been in the basement with all the games we used to play so I took them home. We hooked the unit up today and Freeway works, as does one of the other games, but most of them don&#8217;t. The controller doesn&#8217;t work either. :p <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re going to try cleaning the old games tomorrow to see if we can get them to work again. I hope so because I really miss playing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/game\/atari-5200\/pengo\">Pengo<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intellivisionlives.com\/bluesky\/games\/credits\/atari1.shtml#frogs\">Frogs and Flies<\/a>. I guess we&#8217;ll have to look at the used stores for a controller too.<\/p>\n<p>We are well on our way to becoming gaming fanatics, although we really don&#8217;t play all that often. Our systems:<\/p>\n<p>Atari 2600<br \/>\nOriginal Nintendo<br \/>\nOriginal Gameboy<br \/>\nPlaystation 1<br \/>\nNintendo 64<br \/>\nPlaystation 2<br \/>\nNintendo Gamecube<\/p>\n<p>Yeesh. All we need now is a Sega and Xbox and we&#8217;ll be completely covered. ;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of gaming systems, we bought a used Nintendo 64 today and a couple of games. We got something called an expansion pack for the unit, and for some reason the girl who rang us up didn&#8217;t charge us for it. I don&#8217;t think it was a mistake because she had just finished installing the expansion pack right before ringing up our order. So we got the unit, the expansion pack, one controller and two games for $22. I also bought an Atari game, Freeway, for 99&cent; to test out the Atari 2600 my mom gave me this weekend. It had been in the basement with all the games we used to play so I took them home. We hooked the unit up today and Freeway works, as does one of the other games, but most of them don&#8217;t. The controller doesn&#8217;t work either. :p We&#8217;re going to try cleaning <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=875\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}