{"id":2005,"date":"2013-01-23T22:57:12","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T05:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laughingmonkey.org\/?p=2005"},"modified":"2013-01-23T22:57:12","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T05:57:12","slug":"pinball-wizard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/?p=2005","title":{"rendered":"Pinball Wizard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago, I played a little pinball at a local bar. One of the games was themed after a recent Batman movie, the one with Heath Ledger as Batman. Yawn. We haven&#8217;t had a pinball game that paid tribute to a really subversive movie since&#8230; well, since the Tommy homage in the old Pinball Wizard game.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve decided it&#8217;s time to fix that. They are tying pinball to the wrong movies. We need the fine folks at Williams or Bally to start looking at some more innovative pinball-cinema tie-ins.<\/p>\n<p>How about an Apocalypse Now pinball game? Advancing through a series of gates pushes you further up river towards\u00a0Colonel\u00a0Kurtz.<\/p>\n<p>Or a\u00a0Reservoir\u00a0Dogs video game, where a tilt means the police officer&#8217;s ear gets sliced off?<\/p>\n<p>Or my personal favorite, a Fear and Loathing pinball game? Multi-ball is accompanied with a voice over &#8220;We can&#8217;t stop here; this is bat country!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laughingmonkey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Fear-and-Loathing-pinball.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1995\" title=\"Fear and Loathing pinball\" src=\"http:\/\/www.laughingmonkey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Fear-and-Loathing-pinball.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"497\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago, I played a little pinball at a local bar. One of the games was themed after a recent Batman movie, the one with Heath Ledger&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/?p=2005\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-2005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}