{"id":651,"date":"2024-01-09T09:15:49","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T16:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/?p=651"},"modified":"2024-01-12T09:25:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T16:25:14","slug":"x-arcade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/09\/x-arcade\/","title":{"rendered":"X-Arcade!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I got my new X-Arcade joystick in and started building my new system!&nbsp; Oh yeah!&nbsp; These things are sooo much fun, and classic arcade games? WHO does not love them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pacman, Dig Dug, Asteroids, Frogger, Qix, and Frogger?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have them all, some of my favorites, and man it feels like the real thing, same action as the good old arcade game machines back in the day!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am going to get a nice monitor or small TV and some good sound to put it all together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wanted to build it in an old arcade cabinet like I did last time but they want $400 for a used non-working game.&nbsp; Screw that!&nbsp; I think I paid $25 for my last one \u2013 gutted it and put all the components inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was sooo much fun!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Martini and a game of Pacman m\u2019lady?&nbsp; Ha ha!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got my new X-Arcade joystick in and started building my new system!&nbsp; Oh yeah!&nbsp; These things are sooo much fun, and classic arcade games? WHO does not love them? Pacman, Dig Dug, Asteroids, Frogger, Qix, and Frogger? I have them all, some of my favorites, and man it feels like the real thing, same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":653,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions\/653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}