{"id":6951,"date":"2022-09-07T15:37:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T13:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/07\/my-rediscovered-game-boy-advance-is-a-time-machine-i-dont-want-to-get-out-of\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:37:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T13:37:20","slug":"my-rediscovered-game-boy-advance-is-a-time-machine-i-dont-want-to-get-out-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/07\/my-rediscovered-game-boy-advance-is-a-time-machine-i-dont-want-to-get-out-of\/","title":{"rendered":"My rediscovered Game Boy Advance is a time machine I don\u2019t want to get out of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unearthing beloved old gaming consoles that have been languishing in a freezer bag is a lesser-known plus side of moving house, as <strong>Dominik Diamond<\/strong> discovered<\/p>\n<p>I recently moved into a new house and faced that most terrifying of prospects: a few days without internet access. On top of all the other dependencies that this enriching, vile invention has created in us, all the games I\u2019ve been playing required patches, updates, or someone to play against. I was \u2013 gulp \u2013 gameless!<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, I had found my old Game Boy Advance while moving, rejected and forlorn in a freezer bag in the bottom of a box with a handful of game cartridges, unfingered for nearly 20 years. It had been my constant companion on flights to from Glasgow to London back when we didn\u2019t have phones with games, and I was appearing on what seemed like every single one of those Top 100 War Movies\/TV embarrassments\/Songs That Use Flowers As Metaphors for Sex. (And Richard and Judy.)<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2022\/sep\/07\/my-rediscovered-game-boy-advance-is-a-time-machine-i-dont-want-to-get-out-of\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/96a7a0b6779452c2e29ecb1b1d7bb8ae8b37fd88\/63_0_1489_894\/master\/1489.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=a46f5e7297fc10f3fb891a04f978c020\" title=\"My rediscovered Game Boy Advance is a time machine I don\u2019t want to get out of\" \/>Unearthing beloved old gaming consoles that have been languishing in a freezer bag is a lesser-known plus side of moving house, as Dominik Diamond discovered<br \/>\nI recently moved into a new house and faced that most terrifying of prospects: a few days without internet access. On top of all the other dependencies that this enriching, vile invention has created in us, all the games I\u2019ve been playing required patches, updates, or someone to play against. I was \u2013 gulp \u2013 gameless!<br \/>\nLuckily, I had found my old Game Boy Advance while moving, rejected and forlorn in a freezer bag in the bottom of a box with a handful of game cartridges, unfingered for nearly 20 years. It had been my constant companion on flights to from Glasgow to London back when we didn\u2019t have phones with games, and I was appearing on what seemed like every single one of those Top 100 War Movies\/TV embarrassments\/Songs That Use Flowers As Metaphors for Sex. (And Richard and Judy.) Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unearthing beloved old gaming consoles that have been languishing in a freezer bag is a lesser-known plus side of moving house, as Dominik Diamond discovered I recently moved into a new house and faced that most terrifying of prospects: a few days without internet access. On top of all the other dependencies that this enriching, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/07\/my-rediscovered-game-boy-advance-is-a-time-machine-i-dont-want-to-get-out-of\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My rediscovered Game Boy Advance is a time machine I don\u2019t want to get out of<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6951"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}