{"id":49694,"date":"2015-02-25T23:57:11","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T06:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/25\/gaming-becomes-a-mature-industry.html"},"modified":"2015-05-12T09:36:37","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T15:36:37","slug":"gaming-becomes-a-mature-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/25\/gaming-becomes-a-mature-industry.html","title":{"rendered":"Gaming becomes a mature industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defined as Les indicates.<\/p>\n<p>(RIP Mr Bristow; you provided me many quarters-worth of pleasure in bygone days.)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Les Jenkins<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It&#39;s weird to think that video games have been around long enough to have some of the pioneers start passing away, but it&#39;s true.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2015\/02\/obituary-gaming-pioneer-steve-bristow-helped-design-tank-breakout\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/fIdaCDyZ1ggnDyaw3pHYUy1LIO03-4Y9uyp3DootPV6rQl9CmapEUiplYYmAn0FdQ4tE3LdUgZhU84rNib7Exvgp25k_ksFcUVM7svrqcZtN=w120-h120' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2015\/02\/obituary-gaming-pioneer-steve-bristow-helped-design-tank-breakout\/'>Obituary: Gaming pioneer Steve Bristow helped design Tank, Breakout<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nAtari engineer was instrumental to the company&#8217;s golden age.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/hjzAAShHiZs'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defined as Les indicates. (RIP Mr Bristow; you provided me many quarters-worth of pleasure in bygone days.) Originally shared by +Les Jenkins: It&#39;s weird to think that video games have been around long enough to have some of the pioneers start passing away, but it&#39;s true. Obituary: Gaming pioneer Steve Bristow helped design Tank, Breakout &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/25\/gaming-becomes-a-mature-industry.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gaming becomes a mature industry&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-gaming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8354,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/12\/06\/call_me_beep_me.html","url_meta":{"origin":49694,"position":0},"title":"Call me, beep me, if you want to reach me","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 6-Dec-05 5:23pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Kim Possible will be back for a fourth season. 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