{"id":32,"date":"2006-09-13T01:42:54","date_gmt":"2006-09-13T08:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=32"},"modified":"2006-09-13T01:42:54","modified_gmt":"2006-09-13T08:42:54","slug":"ipod-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=32","title":{"rendered":"iPod games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New iTunes 7.0 came out today. Love the new integration of the iPod updater with iTunes; it makes a lot of sense. But when I heard they had honest-to-goodness <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/itunes\/store\/games.html\">iPod games<\/a> available, well, hey. I bought <em>Texas Hold &#8216;Em<\/em> immediately.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like any other game system&#8211;use the controls available to you wisely and it will be a fun experience. <em>Katamari Damacy<\/em> gets it. <em>Brain Age<\/em> gets it. And after playing tons of crappy portable poker games, I&#8217;m pleasantly surprised to report that <em>Texas Hold &#8216;Em<\/em> gets it. Use the clickwheel to choose whether you want to raise, check, or fold. Simple, clean and minimal animations don&#8217;t get in the way of the game&#8211;and they&#8217;re skippable. Increase your bet but scrolling. The thing&#8217;s so damned intuitive. Five bucks well spent.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see how the AI holds up in the long term, but so far, so good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New iTunes 7.0 came out today. Love the new integration of the iPod updater with iTunes; it makes a lot of sense. But when I heard they had honest-to-goodness iPod games available, well, hey. I bought Texas Hold &#8216;Em immediately. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=32\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}