{"id":1609,"date":"2010-11-04T12:02:29","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T19:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/?p=1609"},"modified":"2010-11-04T12:02:29","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T19:02:29","slug":"first-up-sega-genesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/2010\/11\/04\/first-up-sega-genesis\/","title":{"rendered":"First up: Sega Genesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/IMG_65081.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1608\" title=\"IMG_6508[1]\" src=\"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/IMG_65081-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/IMG_65081-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/IMG_65081-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Genesis came out in the early 90&#8217;s ((Okay, technically the late 80&#8217;s, but that doesn&#8217;t really count.)) and was a rival in both ability and popularity to the Super Nintendo. The standard controller has three face buttons,\u00c2\u00a0a start button, and a D-Pad.\u00c2\u00a0 It did not have any shoulder buttons.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also got Blast Processing.\u00c2\u00a0 No one knows what Blast Processing is, except that it makes things totally awesome.<\/p>\n<p>Genesis controllers are compatible with the Atari 2600, so if you want to play Space Invaders or Pitfall\u00c2\u00a0with a gamepad instead of a joystick, this is a good way to do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Genesis came out in the early 90&#8217;s ((Okay, technically the late 80&#8217;s, but that doesn&#8217;t really count.)) and was a rival in both ability and popularity to the Super Nintendo. The standard controller has three face buttons,\u00c2\u00a0a start button, and a D-Pad.\u00c2\u00a0 It did not have any shoulder buttons. It&#8217;s also got Blast Processing.\u00c2\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[172],"tags":[17,173,238],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1609"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1611,"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions\/1611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}