{"id":860,"date":"2013-03-09T18:23:26","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T18:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=860"},"modified":"2013-03-09T18:23:26","modified_gmt":"2013-03-09T18:23:26","slug":"not-a-good-game-good-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/not-a-good-game-good-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Not a &#8220;Good Game, Good Game&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would have thought that most households that play computer games would also be &#8220;connected&#8221; households. Most games will also have demos or videos of the game that can be downloaded. A computer game is not something you need to go and touch, smell or try on before deciding if you want to buy it. As a result it is hardly surprising that high-street game shops are disappearing. PC games don&#8217;t even need you to buy anything physical. All you need can be downloaded once you have paid your fee.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Not what I would call a good game by Paul Marfell, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/8542728224\/lightbox\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Not what I would call a good game\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8526\/8542728224_e001e0bd6d_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The only way they could survive is if there was something that was there that needed your presence; something that you had to go and watch, or take part in, that would then make you want to buy something.<\/p>\n<p>These two photos are of the sign outside the, now closed, Game shop at the bottom of Darley St., Bradford.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The other side of the Game by Paul Marfell, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/8541648263\/lightbox\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The other side of the Game\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8095\/8541648263_a3cf70a6c6_z.jpg\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would have thought that most households that play computer games would also be &#8220;connected&#8221; households. Most games will also have demos or videos of the game that can be downloaded. A computer game is not something you need to go and touch, smell or try on before deciding if you want to buy it. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3kGoX-dS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":863,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions\/863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}