I’ve never been much of a video game player.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Part of it was that even as a kid, I was never much wired to stand around the arcade feeding quarters into game machines.\u00a0 Part of it was that I was an incredible cheapskate as a kid; I found myself wracked with guilt one day my junior year of high school when I wasted four quarters <\/em>playing Asteroids (which is still the best vid of all time) in one orgy of dissipation.\u00a0<\/p>\n But later – as in, in my mid-twenties – as I hung around one or another of the bars I worked at, I found the urge to while away the odd hour here or there playing videogames.\u00a0 And then, finally, I succumbed to addiction.\u00a0 I burned up countless after-work hours and quarters playing Tetris, the Russian-themed geometry speed game whose theme music I can hum note for note to this day.<\/p>\n And I suspect that I could surround myself in a miasma of post-video-traumatic stress disorder by sinking a buck or two into Tetris Furniture<\/a>.<\/p>\n Dream?\u00a0 Nightmare?\u00a0<\/p>\n Discuss.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve never been much of a video game player.\u00a0 Part of it was that even as a kid, I was never much wired to stand around the arcade feeding quarters into game machines.\u00a0 Part of it was that I was an incredible cheapskate as a kid; I found myself wracked with guilt one day my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}