{"id":114,"date":"2006-10-27T16:01:10","date_gmt":"2006-10-27T08:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2006\/10\/27\/awesome-video-games-video-games-awesome\/"},"modified":"2006-10-27T16:18:59","modified_gmt":"2006-10-27T08:18:59","slug":"awesome-video-games-video-games-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2006\/10\/27\/awesome-video-games-video-games-awesome\/","title":{"rendered":"Awesome Video Games, Video Games Awesome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ffstv.com\/avg\/\">Awesome Video Games<\/a> a couple of weeks ago via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/ace-and-chets-awesome-video-games\">Destructoid<\/a>. It&#8217;s a sort of Bill-And-Ted or Wayne&#8217;s World style show with a couple of &#8220;dudes&#8221; doing retro reviews of NES videogames.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/B3Vh--awqmQ\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s pretty funny and I love the mindless old-school theme song (obviously all done in a robot voice with 8-bit music):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Awesome video games, beep beep bop boop ba beep, video games awesome.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are quite a lot of videogame and retro themed shows coming out under the banner of <a href=\"http:\/\/screwattack.com\/\">ScrewAttack.com<\/a>. I have found their offerings to be a bit of a mixed bag overall, but there are some real pearlers in there. (Some episodes of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamejew.com\/\">GameJew<\/a> are suprisingly good!) The production values are a lot higher than standard <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/\">YouTube<\/a> fare and it really helps set their videos apart.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Update<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-UwToHbkNNM\">Episode 2<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=594Q9DmXhto\">episode 3<\/a> of Awesome Video Games are much better than episode 1 (embedded above).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across Awesome Video Games a couple of weeks ago via Destructoid. It&#8217;s a sort of Bill-And-Ted or Wayne&#8217;s World style show with a couple of &#8220;dudes&#8221; doing retro reviews of NES videogames. It&#8217;s pretty funny and I love the mindless old-school theme song (obviously all done in a robot voice with 8-bit music): &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2006\/10\/27\/awesome-video-games-video-games-awesome\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Awesome Video Games, Video Games Awesome&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLsRH-1Q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}