{"id":3028,"date":"2008-01-02T06:39:53","date_gmt":"2008-01-02T14:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2008\/01\/sept_11_was_like_a_movie_or_now_a_video_game.html"},"modified":"2008-01-02T06:39:53","modified_gmt":"2008-01-02T14:39:53","slug":"sept_11_was_lik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/01\/sept_11_was_lik.html","title":{"rendered":"Sept. 11 Was &#8220;Like A Movie&#8221; . . . Or Now A Video Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silive.com\/news\/advance\/index.ssf?\/base\/news\/1199277915189360.xml&#038;coll=1\">24 meets Missile Command<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The game is called New York Defender and can be found on the French-based Web site Uzinagaz.com, listed under the &#8220;Chaos&#8221; category. It is also available on numerous other videogame sites.<\/p>\n<p>The background of the game&#8217;s welcome screen shows a digitized cityscape, with buildings consumed in orange and brown smoke.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Go beyound [sic] your powerlessness and use your mouse to fight back&#8221; is the game&#8217;s tagline.<\/p>\n<p>In the game itself, two gray Twin Towers stand tall among the city skyline as white airplanes try to crash into them from all angles.<\/p>\n<p>As the player, you use the computer mouse to move about a red target sign, with two green laser-like lines taking aim at the airplanes each time you fire. A loud shooting noise designates the firing of your weapon.<\/p>\n<p>If one plane hits a Tower, the building shows damage and begins to smoke.<\/p>\n<p>Should a second plane hit a Tower, the building collapses in a pile of rubble.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s like 24 meets Missile Command: The game is called New York Defender and can be found on the French-based Web site Uzinagaz.com, listed under the &#8220;Chaos&#8221; category. It is also available on numerous other videogame sites. The background of the game&#8217;s welcome screen shows a digitized cityscape, with buildings consumed in orange and brown [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things_that_make_you_go_oy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}