{"id":1199,"date":"2026-04-08T04:02:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T04:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/?p=1199"},"modified":"2026-04-08T04:02:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T04:02:27","slug":"video-game-archaeology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/video-game-archaeology\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Game Archaeology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve been daydreaming lately about reviving an old video game.  I&#8217;m not even sure what I mean by that.  But, I&#8217;ve always wanted to run a game server of some dead internet game.  Keeping it alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I voiced this idea with my son and he immediately loved it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, I pulled out a pencil and paper and we just started brainstorming and jotting our thoughts down.  Games we like.  Genres we like.  Text based games vs FPS vs RTS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We did this for about an hour.  At the end I asked him to rate them on a scale of 1 to 10 where 10 is the best.  We went through the list and there were only two that ranked 10:  Unreal Tournament and Dark Age of Camelot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He&#8217;s too young to have played either of these games.  But in the next few days, I&#8217;m going to research them both and pick the one that looks the easiest to install in 2026.  Will be a fun bonding experience&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, and he came up with the name for this project:  Video Game Archaeology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"771\" src=\"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/VideoGameArchaeology-1024x771.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/VideoGameArchaeology-1024x771.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/VideoGameArchaeology-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/VideoGameArchaeology-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/VideoGameArchaeology-1536x1157.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/VideoGameArchaeology-2048x1542.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been daydreaming lately about reviving an old video game. I&#8217;m not even sure what I mean by that. But, I&#8217;ve always wanted to run a game server of some dead internet game. Keeping it alive. I voiced this idea with my son and he immediately loved it. So, I pulled out a pencil and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1201,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions\/1201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}