{"id":304,"date":"2012-06-27T17:49:32","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T17:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=304"},"modified":"2012-06-27T17:49:32","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T17:49:32","slug":"atari-turns-40-celebrates-with-new-centipede","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/06\/27\/atari-turns-40-celebrates-with-new-centipede\/","title":{"rendered":"Atari Turns 40, Celebrates with New Centipede"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"posterous_autopost\">\n<div class=\"posterous_bookmarklet_entry\">\n<p>Forty years ago today, Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney founded Atari, and the gaming giant is celebrating with a big push onto smartphones. The company released Centipede: Origins for iOS and Droid devices last week, overhauling the original\u2019s iconic pixelated graphics with a fresh design and layers of new gameplay aimed at today\u2019s Angry Birds generation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe touch screen adds a dimension that I think is much more personal, as opposed to a joystick,\u201d Giancarlo Mori, Atari\u2019s head of product development, told me in a recent interview. \u201cWe\u2019re trying to find the sweet spot between nostalgia and innovation\u2014to give more than the original game design will allow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Full article: <a class=\"externlink\" title=\"Go to http:\/\/f34d3115.tinylinks.co\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rd.com\/recommends\/atari-turns-40-celebrates-with-new-centipede\/\">http:\/\/www.rd.com\/recommends\/atari-turns-40-celebrates-with-new-centipede\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forty years ago today, Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney founded Atari, and the gaming giant is celebrating with a big push onto smartphones. The company released Centipede: Origins for iOS and Droid devices last week, overhauling the original\u2019s iconic pixelated graphics with a fresh design and layers of new gameplay aimed at today\u2019s Angry Birds generation. \u201cThe touch screen adds a dimension that I think is much more personal, as opposed to a joystick,\u201d Giancarlo Mori, Atari\u2019s head of product development, told me in a recent interview. \u201cWe\u2019re trying to find the sweet spot between nostalgia and innovation\u2014to give more than the original game design will allow.\u201d Full article: http:\/\/www.rd.com\/recommends\/atari-turns-40-celebrates-with-new-centipede\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[180,225,408,913],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retro-games","tag-android","tag-atari","tag-centipede","tag-ios"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}