{"id":1017,"date":"2008-08-03T11:57:40","date_gmt":"2008-08-03T15:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/08\/03\/sid-meiers-first-game\/"},"modified":"2008-08-03T13:09:32","modified_gmt":"2008-08-03T17:09:32","slug":"sid-meiers-first-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/08\/03\/sid-meiers-first-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Sid Meier&#8217;s First Game?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stanford University is at the forefront of game preservation efforts. Eric Kaltman is the official blogger for the Stephen M. Cabrinety Collection. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/group\/htgg\/cgi-bin\/drupal\/?q=node\/237\">And he found this little gem<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The idea that Meier&#8217;s earliest published work wasn&#8217;t a flight sim is an intriguing one. The &#8220;I can make a flying game better than this&#8221; bet with Bill Stealey is part of the lore of Microprose&#8217;s founding. And now we have a racing game that everyone seems to have forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>(Spotted at <a href=\"http:\/\/gamesetwatch.com\">Game, Set, Watch<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stanford University is at the forefront of game preservation efforts. Eric Kaltman is the official blogger for the Stephen M. Cabrinety Collection. And he found this little gem. The idea that Meier&#8217;s earliest published work wasn&#8217;t a flight sim is an intriguing one. The &#8220;I can make a flying game better than this&#8221; bet with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,78],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-gp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}