{"id":142,"date":"2009-10-06T20:02:03","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T01:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/?p=142"},"modified":"2009-10-06T20:02:24","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T01:02:24","slug":"17-year-old-llamas-are-still-going-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/?p=142","title":{"rendered":"17 year old Llamas are still going strong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wired recently ran this short article about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/gamelife\/2009\/10\/gridrunner-revolution-review\/\">Gridrunner Revolution<\/a>, a new acid-trip game from Jeff Mitner.<\/p>\n<p>Who?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, that&#8217;s what I said.  But then I actually READ the article, instead of looking at the tripped out picture.  Mintner is the Wil-E-Coyote level Super Genius behind <a href=\"http:\/\/www.llamasoft.co.uk\/frontpage.php\">Llamasoft<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wait, Who?<\/p>\n<p>RIGHT AGAIN!  Llamasoft is the company that created Llamatron!  I can&#8217;t even find an informative link to Llamatron except for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Llamatron\">this wikipedia link<\/a>, even on the Llamasoft website, but, dangit, Llamatron was one of the games that defined my early gaming addiction and I&#8217;m just super-pumped to see that the company and the dude behind it are still spewing forth trippy games.<\/p>\n<p>You can actually download the 1992 game from Llamasoft on various platforms.  I can&#8217;t quite get the PC version to run on Vista, but I haven&#8217;t yet spent as long trying as I have writing this blog post.<\/p>\n<p>If you get a chance, though, go read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.llamasoft.co.uk\/lshistory1.php\">Llamasoft history<\/a>.  It&#8217;s a great read about their experiences in early gaming development, and it has a lot of memories that make me remember the era fondly&#8230; hopefully you&#8217;ll have the same experience.<\/p>\n<p>Viva La Llama.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;Chip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired recently ran this short article about Gridrunner Revolution, a new acid-trip game from Jeff Mitner. Who? Yeah, that&#8217;s what I said. But then I actually READ the article, instead of looking at the tripped out picture. Mintner&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/?p=142\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}