{"id":1644,"date":"2010-11-04T16:09:42","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T23:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/?p=1644"},"modified":"2010-11-04T16:09:42","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T23:09:42","slug":"game-3-roadblasters-sega-genesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/2010\/11\/04\/game-3-roadblasters-sega-genesis\/","title":{"rendered":"Game #3: RoadBlasters &#8211; Sega Genesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/OhSnap_1604581104.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1650\" title=\"OhSnap_1604581104\" src=\"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/OhSnap_1604581104-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/OhSnap_1604581104-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/OhSnap_1604581104-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/OhSnap_1604581104.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/OhSnap_1541431104.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RoadBlasters was one of my favorite arcade games.\u00c2\u00a0 I never was any good at it, but I loved playing it.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s a cross between OutRun and Spy Hunter.\u00c2\u00a0 You race against the clock and try to shoot everything on the road.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/OhSnap_1542221104.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1648\" title=\"OhSnap_1542221104\" src=\"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/OhSnap_1542221104-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/OhSnap_1542221104-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/OhSnap_1542221104-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/OhSnap_1542221104.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is an excellent port of the arcade version.\u00c2\u00a0 The graphics and sound effects and gameplay area an almost perfect translation.\u00c2\u00a0 There are, however, a few things missing.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>No promise of a T-Shirt if you get to level 50.<\/li>\n<li>No notice that &#8220;Winners don&#8217;t use drugs&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>And, worst of all, no speech.\u00c2\u00a0 Now I don&#8217;t know that I&#8217;m approaching the Rally Point!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/OhSnap_1548091104.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1649\" title=\"OhSnap_1548091104\" src=\"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/OhSnap_1548091104-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/OhSnap_1548091104-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/OhSnap_1548091104-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/OhSnap_1548091104.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 All I need to do is figure out how to replace my car&#8217;s steering wheel with one from a RoadBlasters arcade machine&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RoadBlasters was one of my favorite arcade games.\u00c2\u00a0 I never was any good at it, but I loved playing it.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s a cross between OutRun and Spy Hunter.\u00c2\u00a0 You race against the clock and try to shoot everything on the road. This is an excellent port of the arcade version.\u00c2\u00a0 The graphics and sound effects [&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":[238],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644"}],"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=1644"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1652,"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions\/1652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}