{"id":44,"date":"2024-12-16T12:41:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T09:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/a855072\/?p=44"},"modified":"2024-12-16T12:45:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T09:45:27","slug":"donkey-kong-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/a855072\/2024\/12\/16\/donkey-kong-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Donkey Kong Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Fraser works with people struggling with video game addiction, but he\u2019s a proponent of healthy gaming. He\u2019s currently in a\u00a0Donkey Kong<\/em>\u2013playing phase with his 13- and 10-year old children. \u201cThat was my favorite game when I was their age,\u201d he says. \u201cI do think there\u2019s a nostalgia to playing. The look, the music, and the feel of the game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Playing older games\u2014or games made to look retro\u2014transport the gamer. \u201cIt takes me back to a simpler time when games were two-dimensional, the music was simple, and yet it was still a lot of fun to play,\u201d says Fraser. \u201cMy daughter made a certain move on the third board of\u00a0Donkey Kong<\/em>\u00a0that I forgot all about, and memories flooded through my mind of when my friends and I first discovered that move.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Donkey Kong<\/em>\u00a0and other video games from childhood have a way of sticking with you, like the waxy sweet smell of a fresh Fruit Roll-up. That\u2019s evidenced in the games hitting the market today\u2014\u201cold-looking\u201d games are finding fans in 2021. In the same way that cell phone apps are\u00a0designed to be addictive<\/a>\u00a0and resemble the psychological mechanisms that draw people to slot machines, new games designed to look like 8-bit or 16-bit games are created to sate your appetite for nostalgia.<\/p>\n

wired.com<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/why-retro-looking-games-get-so-much-love\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael Fraser works with people struggling with video game addiction, but he\u2019s a proponent of healthy gaming. He\u2019s currently in a\u00a0Donkey Kong\u2013playing phase with his 13- and 10-year old children. \u201cThat was my favorite game when I was their age,\u201d he says. \u201cI do think there\u2019s a nostalgia to playing. The look, the music, and … Continue reading Donkey Kong Dreams<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794685,"featured_media":10,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/a855072\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/a855072\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/a855072\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/a855072\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/794685"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/a855072\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/a855072\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/a855072\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/a855072\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/a855072\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/a855072\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}