{"id":2248,"date":"2010-12-31T06:12:11","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T06:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/?p=2248"},"modified":"2010-12-31T06:12:11","modified_gmt":"2010-12-31T06:12:11","slug":"the-gameboy-that-survived-the-gulf-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/the-gameboy-that-survived-the-gulf-war\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gameboy That Survived The Gulf War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>War is a serious situation often trivialized in the video games we  play. The most successful video game franchises deal with war, <em>Call of Duty, Halo, Medal of Honor<\/em>,  just to name a few. More often than not it&#8217;s the real wars we deal with  that shape our video games but in this bizarre instance an actual war  has shaped a video game console. This Gameboy was blown up in a bombing  during the Gulf War. The fact that it retained its shape despite  clearly being squished and melted isn&#8217;t even the impressive part. The  impressive part is that it still works. <em>Tetris<\/em> anyone?<br \/>\n<a name=\"readmore\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/files.g4tv.com\/ImageDb3\/257184_S\/Nugget-From-The-Net-The-Game-Boy-That-Survived-The-Gulf-War.jpg\" alt=\"Nugget From The Net: The Game Boy That Survived The Gulf War\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And here&#8217;s some video of the Gameboy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/EAnIRxgODy4?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/EAnIRxgODy4?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>War is a serious situation often trivialized in the video games we play. The most successful video game<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2248"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2250,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248\/revisions\/2250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}