{"id":44949,"date":"2018-09-04T20:39:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T20:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/325882"},"modified":"2018-09-04T20:39:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T20:39:00","slug":"check-out-rolling-stones-1972-coverage-of-spacewar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/09\/04\/check-out-rolling-stones-1972-coverage-of-spacewar\/","title":{"rendered":"Check out Rolling Stone&#8217;s 1972 coverage of Spacewar!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The original scan of a\u00a0<em>Spacewar! <\/em>article published by Rolling Stone back in 1972 has been uploaded to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/BrandSpacewarRollingStone\">the Internet Archive<\/a>,\u00a0a digital library dedicated to preserving bits of cultural artifacts that may have otherwise been lost to time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The title should ring a bell for most\u00a0developers, as <em>Spacewar! <\/em>is among the first video games to have ever been developed (back in 1962!)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/feature\/132438\/the_history_of_spacewar_the_best_.php\">and contains a rich history<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While it isn&#8217;t\u00a0clear if this\u00a0<em>Spacewar!\u00a0<\/em>spread is the first time a video game was written about for Rolling Stone, it&#8217;s still interesting to see how coverage has changed throughout the years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A text-only version of the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wheels.org\/spacewar\/stone\/rolling_stone.html\">can be viewed<\/a> here as well for easier reading.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The original scan of a\u00a0Spacewar! article published by Rolling Stone back in 1972 has been uploaded to\u00a0the Internet Archive,\u00a0a digital library dedicated to preserving bits of cultural artifacts that may have otherwise been lost to time.\u00a0 The title should ring a bell for most\u00a0developers, as Spacewar! is among the first video games to have ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}