{"id":319,"date":"2005-11-09T11:58:24","date_gmt":"2005-11-09T19:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/?p=319"},"modified":"2005-12-23T15:44:14","modified_gmt":"2005-12-23T23:44:14","slug":"risk-on-google-maps-plus-other-mac-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/09\/risk-on-google-maps-plus-other-mac-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Risk on Google Maps Plus Other Mac Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever played the board game <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Risk_(board_game)\" target=\"_blank\">Risk<\/a>? Some dude <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ashotoforangejuice.com\/gmrisk.html\" target=\"_blank\">created one<\/a> using Google Maps. Slashdot reports that a multi-player version is in the works&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/google_risk.jpg\" width=\"297\" height=\"173\" class=\"centered\" alt=\"Risk on Google Maps\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I remember playing my very first games of Risk on a dinky <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.info.apple.com\/article.html?artnum=112170\" target=\"_blank\">Macintosh SE<\/a> (the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Macintosh_SE\" target=\"_blank\">original<\/a> all-in-one Mac), running System 4 with only 1MB of RAM.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/mac_original_os.png\" width=\"299\" height=\"200\" class=\"centered\" alt=\"Mac original OS\" \/><br \/>\n<i>Image courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Later I graduated to playing the first version of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prince_of_Persia\" target=\"_blank\">Prince of Persia<\/a> when it became available. And let&#8217;s not forget the original <a href=\"http:\/\/www.answers.com\/topic\/the-oregon-trail\" target=\"_blank\">Oregon Trail<\/a>, apparently an educational title for social studies (but what did I care; it was a GAME!).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/game_prince_of_persia.png\" width=\"297\" height=\"198\" class=\"centered\" alt=\"Prince of Persia\" \/><br \/>\n<i>Image courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popuw.com\/mac.html\" target=\"_blank\">Prince of Persia Unofficial Website<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/game_oregon_trail.png\" width=\"297\" height=\"186\" class=\"centered\" alt=\"Oregon Trail\" \/><br \/>\n<i>Image courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.answers.com\/topic\/the-oregon-trail\" target=\"_blank\">Answers.com<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>via [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashdot.org\" target=\"_blank\">Slashdot<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever played the board game Risk? Some dude created one using Google Maps. Slashdot reports that a multi-player version is in the works&#8230; I remember playing my very first games of Risk on a dinky Macintosh SE (the original all-in-one Mac), running System 4 with only 1MB of RAM. Image courtesy of Wikipedia &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/09\/risk-on-google-maps-plus-other-mac-games\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Risk on Google Maps Plus Other Mac Games&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek-stuff","category-mac-osx"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-59","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}