{"id":132,"date":"2009-06-02T22:08:42","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T21:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/?p=132"},"modified":"2010-08-07T22:26:56","modified_gmt":"2010-08-07T22:26:56","slug":"pixels-from-the-past-rc-pro-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/pixels-from-the-past-rc-pro-am\/","title":{"rendered":"Pixels from the past: R.C. Pro-Am"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/media\/capture_02062009_214055.jpg\" rel=\"image_group\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-134 aligncenter\" title=\"R.C. Pro-Am\" src=\"http:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/media\/capture_02062009_214055.jpg\" alt=\"R.C. Pro-Am\" width=\"443\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/media\/capture_02062009_214055.jpg 443w, https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/media\/capture_02062009_214055-300x237.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">What to do about the relative lack of decent browser-based racing games? Either sit and shake your head ruefully until it falls off. <em>Or <\/em>play <strong>R.C. Pro-Am<\/strong> &#8212; the 1988 NES game from Banjo-Tooie boys Rare that&#8217;s still <em>one of the best racers in racertown<\/em>. Race surprisingly fast for 20-year-old technology! Skid around with satisfying just-rightness! <em>Aim rockets at dastardly cheat-happy rival racers<\/em>! And realise that with that happy little between-circuit screen of medals and cups, Rare invented Achievements about 2 decades before the fates intended. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everyvideogame.com\/arcade.php?mode=play&amp;g=717\"><strong>Play R.C. Pro-Am (in-browser, Java)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What to do about the relative lack of decent browser-based racing games? Either sit and shake your head ruefully until it falls off. Or play R.C. Pro-Am &#8212; the 1988 NES game from Banjo-Tooie boys Rare that&#8217;s still one of the best racers in racertown. Race surprisingly fast for 20-year-old technology! Skid around with satisfying just-rightness! Aim rockets at dastardly cheat-happy rival racers! And realise that with that happy little between-circuit screen of medals and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[93],"tags":[63,62,65,66,64,61,26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}