{"id":15370,"date":"2020-03-18T23:15:56","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T23:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/arcade-game-of-many-firsts-4\/"},"modified":"2020-03-18T23:15:56","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T23:15:56","slug":"arcade-game-of-many-firsts-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/arcade-game-of-many-firsts-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Arcade Game of Many Firsts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1076\" title=\"Gran Trek 10\" alt=\"Gran Trek 10\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ad25c__grantrek10.jpeg\" width=\"237\" height=\"213\" \/>March 18,\u00a01974<\/p>\n<p>Atari Introduces <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gran_Trak_10\" target=\"_blank\">Gran Trak 10<\/a>. It is the first arcade game to use solid state read-only memory (ROM) to store sprites for each car, the game timer, the race track, and the score. As such, it\u2019s the the first game to have defined characters rather than mathematically manipulated dots. The game\u2019s controls, which include a four-position gear shifter, a steering wheel, and two foot pedals, are also all firsts for arcade games.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/03\/18\/arcade-game-of-many-firsts\/\">Arcade Game of Many Firsts<\/a> is original content of <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\">This Day in Tech History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ad25c__13364141.gif\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/tracking.feedpress.it\/link\/1823\/13364141\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 18,\u00a01974 Atari Introduces Gran Trak 10. It is the first arcade game to use solid state read-only memory (ROM) to store sprites for each car, the game timer, the race track, and the score. As such, it\u2019s the the first game to have defined characters rather than mathematically manipulated dots. The game\u2019s controls, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[2564,4085,202,4084],"class_list":["post-15370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-arcade","tag-firsts","tag-game","tag-many"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}