{"id":548,"date":"2001-12-17T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2001-12-17T18:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=548"},"modified":"2001-12-17T14:25:00","modified_gmt":"2001-12-17T18:25:00","slug":"attack-of-the-mutant-camels-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2001\/12\/17\/14\/25\/attack-of-the-mutant-camels-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"Attack of the Mutant Camels Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntk.net\/\">NTK<\/a> was right. Game guru <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magicnet.net\/~yak\/yak.htm\">Jeff Minter&#8217;s<\/a> apocalyptic 1980s-era vision of a world devastated by <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/hi\/english\/world\/south_asia\/newsid_1705000\/1705341.stm\">homicidal mutant kamikaze camels<\/a> looks like it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/hi\/english\/world\/south_asia\/newsid_1705000\/1705341.stm\">coming true in Afghanistan<\/a>. His <a href=\"http:\/\/www.c64.com\/detail.php?gameid=94\"><i>Attack of the Mutant Camels<\/i><\/a> was a copy of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atariage.com\/software_page.html?SoftwareLabelID=501\"><i>Empire Strikes Back<\/i><\/a> game that improved on the original in speed, gameplay, sound effects, and ultimate trippiness. Compare and contrast:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.c64.com\/detail.php?gameid=94\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/Asset\/Att_Mutant_Camels_LL.sss.gif\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atariage.com\/software_page.html?SoftwareLabelID=501\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/Asset\/s_StarWarsEmpireStrikesBack_2.png\" width=\"439\" height=\"256\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NTK was right. Game guru Jeff Minter&#8217;s apocalyptic 1980s-era vision of a world devastated by homicidal mutant kamikaze camels looks like it&#8217;s coming true in Afghanistan. His Attack of the Mutant Camels was a&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}