{"id":164,"date":"2007-09-04T02:39:26","date_gmt":"2007-09-04T02:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntucat.wordpress.com\/2007\/09\/04\/the-king-of-king-sucked-me-in\/"},"modified":"2007-09-04T02:39:26","modified_gmt":"2007-09-04T02:39:26","slug":"the-king-of-king-sucked-me-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/the-king-of-king-sucked-me-in\/","title":{"rendered":"The King of Kong sucked me in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though I like documentaries, I hadn&#8217;t heard of <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billyvssteve.com\/\">King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters<\/a><\/i> and had no interest in seeing it&#8230; until I found out it was playing at our new favorite movie theater, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.balboamovies.com\/\">The Balboa<\/a>. So my wife and I checked out its rating on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\">Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> and decided to give it a shot. <\/p>\n<p> In the beginning, we just laughed at the video game geeks talking about how important having the highest score in Pac-Man or Donkey Kong is. By the end of the movie, though, I was anxious to see who would win this contest&mdash;Billy Mitchell, the defending champion, or Steve Wiebe, the challenger. I love it when films suck me in like that. I can definitely say I had very little interest in Donkey Kong before this. The most I&#8217;d ever felt about classic games was a bit of nostalgia for a little &#8220;wizard needs food badly&#8221; from Gauntlet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though I like documentaries, I hadn&#8217;t heard of King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters and had no interest in seeing it&#8230; until I found out it was playing at our new favorite movie theater, The Balboa. So my wife and I checked out its rating on Rotten Tomatoes and decided to give it&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/the-king-of-king-sucked-me-in\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The King of Kong sucked me in<\/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":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}