{"id":1194,"date":"2017-02-20T10:18:49","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T17:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/the-ship-from-asteroids-is-hidden-in-plain-sight-in-your-gps-system\/"},"modified":"2017-02-20T10:18:49","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T17:18:49","slug":"the-ship-from-asteroids-is-hidden-in-plain-sight-in-your-gps-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/the-ship-from-asteroids-is-hidden-in-plain-sight-in-your-gps-system\/","title":{"rendered":"The ship from Asteroids is hidden in plain sight in your GPS system"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For those of a certain age, approved<\/a> the iconic \u201cpew pew pew\u201d noises of the Asteroids<\/em> arcade game bring a flood memories. The gameplay<\/a> pales in comparison to the ultra-realistic video games of today, check<\/a> but there\u2019s a quaint charm to flying around in a little space ship blowing up floating rocks.<\/p>\n

Asteroids<\/em>, first released in late 1979, was one of the first really popular video games, but its legacy goes much further than that. In fact, if you use most popular GPS navigation systems, you\u2019re staring at a little bit of Asteroids<\/em> lore every time you get in the car: the spaceship.<\/p>\n

Fast Company<\/em>\u2019s Benj Edwards wrote an excellent story<\/a> this week about Atari founder Nolan Bushnell\u2019s Catalyst Technologies, a high-tech incubator in the early 1980s. In it, he…<\/p>\n

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For those of a certain age, approved the iconic \u201cpew pew pew\u201d noises of the Asteroids arcade game bring a flood memories. The gameplay pales in comparison to the ultra-realistic video games of today, check but there\u2019s a quaint charm to flying around in a little space ship blowing up floating rocks. Asteroids, first released… Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[174,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games-media","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t