{"id":738,"date":"2008-02-08T19:03:58","date_gmt":"2008-02-09T02:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=738"},"modified":"2008-06-21T17:53:54","modified_gmt":"2008-06-22T00:53:54","slug":"the-nerdlinessit-calls-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=738","title":{"rendered":"The Nerdliness&#8230;.It Calls To Me&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you don&#8217;t wander the halls of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fark.com\/\">Fark<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.endgadget.com\/\">Endgadget<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kotaku.com\/\">Kotaku<\/a> (and, if not, what the hell is <em>wrong<\/em> with you, got a <em>life<\/em> or something?), you may have missed this. A gentleman in Linden, Virginia has constructed a full-sized <a href=\"http:\/\/peterhirschberg.com\/arcade\/gameroom.htm\">80&#8217;s-style video game arcade<\/a> on his property, filled to the rafters with classic coin-op video games. This guy has really done it up right: from  the vintage posters on the walls down to the fluorescent space-themed carpet design glowing beneath the banks of black lights hanging from the ceiling, this setup is the coin-op enthusiast&#8217;s wet dream. Unfortunately, the arcade is only for the delectation of owner Peter Hirschberg&#8217;s family and close friends; it&#8217;d probably be worth a trip to the East Coast to visit the thing. Particularly seeing as how he has a vintage <a href=\"http:\/\/peterhirschberg.com\/arcade\/images\/_games\/battlezone.jpg\">Atari Battle Zone<\/a> game in his collection. I was a fiend on that particular machine: spent many an hour quaffing Coke Slurpees and playing on a single quarter down at the Kailua 7-Eleven. I bet if I got through that door, I&#8217;d still walk out only one quarter lighter. It&#8217;s all in the way you handle the missiles.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an excellent little article about the arcade at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/story\/2008\/02\/02\/ST2008020201061.html\">washingtonpost.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you don&#8217;t wander the halls of Fark, Endgadget or Kotaku (and, if not, what the hell is wrong with you, got a life or something?), you may have missed this. A gentleman in Linden, Virginia has constructed a full-sized 80&#8217;s-style video game arcade on his property, filled to the rafters with classic coin-op [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roominations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}