{"id":45,"date":"2009-07-25T10:49:51","date_gmt":"2009-07-25T14:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/?p=45"},"modified":"2011-02-23T02:19:05","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T06:19:05","slug":"if-youre-gonna-play-the-gameboy-ya-gotta-learn-to-play-it-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/25\/if-youre-gonna-play-the-gameboy-ya-gotta-learn-to-play-it-right\/","title":{"rendered":"If you&#8217;re gonna play the Gameboy, ya gotta learn to play it right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so that&#8217;s not quite how the lyrics for Kenny Rogers&#8217; <em>The Gambler<\/em> go, but it&#8217;s an amusing case of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=misheard%20lyrics\">misheard lyrics<\/a>.  <em>The Gambler<\/em> is just one of 21 great country songs you&#8217;ll find in the brand new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockband.com\/games\/country\"><em>Rock Band Country Track Pack<\/em><\/a>, available now for the PS2, PS3, Xbox 360, and Wii.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/rock-band-country-track-pack-box-artwork.jpg\" title=\"Rock Band Country Track Pack box artwork\"><\/p>\n<p>Enough with the blatant advertising.  <em>Rock Band Country Track Pack<\/em> was a joint venture between <a href=\"http:\/\/demiurgestudios.com\/\">Demiurge Studios<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harmonixmusic.com\/\">Harmonix Music Systems<\/a> that I&#8217;m proud to say I was a part of.  I had a blast working on it, since I was already a huge fan of the <em>Rock Band<\/em> franchise.  But prior to this past Tuesday&#8217;s release, we couldn&#8217;t tell anyone we were working on it, even though the game had been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockband.com\/forums\/showthread.php?p=2405621#post2405621\">announced in May<\/a>, thanks to some bigwigs in upper management who decided it wasn&#8217;t in their interests.  Of course, now that the game is on the street and our logo and names are in the credits, we can talk freely.<\/p>\n<p><em>Rock Band Country Track Pack<\/em> now joins <a href=\"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/26\/brothers-in-arms-double-time\/\"><em>Brothers in Arms: Double Time<\/em><\/a> in the elite class of retail games with my name in them.  <em>Mass Effect<\/em> (PC) also has my name in it, as Demiurge credits all people in the studio in its products, although I only worked on that game for about two weeks.  <em>Word-Fu<\/em> (iPhone) was another game I worked on, but it has very minimal credits.  You can still find my (first) name at the top of the built-in high scores table &#8212; of course, that&#8217;s not my <em>real<\/em> high score.  If they&#8217;d let me put in my real high score, that would have just been too depressing to people who bought the game who aren&#8217;t very good spellers.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s next for Demiurge?  Only time will tell.  Well, <em>I<\/em> could tell you, but then I&#8217;d have to kill you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so that&#8217;s not quite how the lyrics for Kenny Rogers&#8217; The Gambler go, but it&#8217;s an amusing case of misheard lyrics. The Gambler is just one of 21 great country songs you&#8217;ll find in the brand new Rock Band Country Track Pack, available now for the PS2, PS3, Xbox 360, and Wii. Enough with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191,"href":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}