{"id":314,"date":"2009-06-12T12:05:43","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T02:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/?p=314"},"modified":"2009-06-12T19:44:44","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T09:44:44","slug":"avast-monkeys-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/2009\/06\/avast-monkeys-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Avast! Monkeys ahead!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know retro gaming is fashionable these days, but I think it&#8217;s more than nostalgia that keeps us looking back fondly at the games of our youth. In that spirit, Lucas Arts is bringing Monkey Island to the Xbox 360:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" id=\"gb_player\" align=\"middle\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"sameDomain\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.giantbomb.com\/video\/video.swf\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"paramsURI=http%3A\/\/www.giantbomb.com\/video\/params\/843\/?w=1\"><\/param><param name=\"videoURI\" value=\"http:\/\/media.giantbomb.com\/video\/tr_monkeyislandse_060909.flv\"><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\" \/><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, I&#8217;m excited about this. I think I&#8217;ve even forgotten enough that rediscovering Monkey Island will still be a fun experience! My only concern is whether the controls will be good, but that&#8217;s just a minor quibble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know retro gaming is fashionable these days, but I think it&#8217;s more than nostalgia that keeps us looking back fondly at the games of our youth. In that spirit, Lucas Arts is bringing Monkey Island to the Xbox 360: Needless to say, I&#8217;m excited about this. I think I&#8217;ve even forgotten enough that rediscovering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[270,267,66],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p149Qe-54","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions\/318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}