{"id":232,"date":"2009-05-30T12:27:07","date_gmt":"2009-05-30T17:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegobutton.net\/blog\/?p=232"},"modified":"2011-06-28T18:44:09","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T22:44:09","slug":"look-its-a-game-you-can-carry-in-your-pocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/look-its-a-game-you-can-carry-in-your-pocket\/","title":{"rendered":"Look &#8211; It&#8217;s a Game You Can Carry in Your Pocket!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/games.jpg\" alt=\"games\" title=\"games\" width=\"500\" height=\"356\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-233\" srcset=\"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/games.jpg 500w, http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/games-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><br \/>\nWhile visiting my parents last week, I ran across this contraption that was rather special to me in my childhood.  On one side, it has a chess board with little holes, and these two drawers slide out and there are little teeny tiny chess pieces you can stick in the holes.  On the back, there is a circular maze-like game where you have three silver balls and have to tilt the board so that all three balls wind up in the center of the maze.  I thought this multi-purpose portable gaming device was the coolest thing in the &#8217;80s.<\/p>\n<p>It was nice to see it again, and I had it just sitting on the table in front of me for a while, and then at some point put my phone down on the table. Eventually I went to get my phone and found these two devices sitting side-by-side.  See, 20 years ago, the device on the right was sooo cool, cause it was portable (although you&#8217;d need some pretty big pockets!), and you could play <i>two games<\/i>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While visiting my parents last week, I ran across this contraption that was rather special to me in my childhood. On one side, it has a chess board with little holes, and these two drawers slide out and there are little teeny tiny chess pieces you can stick in the holes. On the back, there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,8],"tags":[100,240,94],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3214,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/3214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}