{"id":651,"date":"2013-08-12T21:53:55","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T21:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/retroramblings.net\/?p=651"},"modified":"2026-08-14T12:56:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T12:56:44","slug":"the-next-generation-of-retro-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/retroramblings.net\/?p=651","title":{"rendered":"The next generation of Retro fans?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My nieces visited today &#8211; and spent a very happy hour playing two of my old favourite games &#8211; Pang and Lotus II.  Both games went down extremely well with the girls despite being released about 10 years before they were born!  While I still find a lot of fun in classic games, it&#8217;s encouraging to see that they&#8217;re enjoyable even to the iPad generation.<\/p>\n<p>I was rather amused, however, that they were playing such ancient games on brand new, 2013 hardware: For Pang we used Majsta&#8217;s prototype Vampire 500 board, while we ran Lotus II on one of Till Harbaum&#8217;s prototype MIST boards!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My nieces visited today &#8211; and spent a very happy hour playing two of my old favourite games &#8211; Pang and Lotus II. Both games went down extremely well with the girls despite being released about 10 years before they &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/retroramblings.net\/?p=651\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amiga","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/retroramblings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/retroramblings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/retroramblings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/retroramblings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/retroramblings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/retroramblings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":653,"href":"http:\/\/retroramblings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions\/653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/retroramblings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/retroramblings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/retroramblings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}