{"id":16905,"date":"2013-02-19T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=16905"},"modified":"2013-02-19T00:43:12","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T06:43:12","slug":"have-a-designated-driver-if-you-play-the-last-barfighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/culture\/have-a-designated-driver-if-you-play-the-last-barfighter\/","title":{"rendered":"Have A Designated Driver If You Play The Last Barfighter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/techcitement.comculture\/have-a-designated-driver-if-you-play-the-last-barfighter\/attachment\/beercade1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16906\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-16906\" alt=\"beercade1\" src=\"https:\/\/techcitement.comadmin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/beercade1-e1361256122639.jpg\" width=\"575\" height=\"308\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s not mince words: Someone has invented a video game that serves you beer.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, that someone is the <a href=\"http:\/\/mckinney.com\/news\/mckinney-introduces-the-world-s-first-beer-dispensing-arcade-game\">McKinney advertising agency<\/a>, who built <em>The Last Barfighter<\/em> machine for its client, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigbossbrewing.com\/\">Big Boss Brewing<\/a>. <em>The Last Beerfighter<\/em> is a fighting game that, instead of accepting quarters, activates when a motion sensor detects a player has placed a cup under beer taps on the front of the cabinet. Defeat your opponent and win a beer! Which you could probably acquire by going up to the bar and asking for a beer in the traditional manner! But that\u2019s not really the point, is it?<\/p>\n<p>[yframe url=&#8217;http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=njPqVNpwaew&#8217;]<\/p>\n<p>The gameplay itself doesn\u2019t appear to be anything to write home about, based on the extremely limited glimpses available in the trailer. In fact, you could probably find a comparable flash-based fighter with a quickie Google search and go get a beer out your fridge. But again, that\u2019s probably not really the point.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, okay, the whole idea is a bit stupid. That doesn\u2019t mean I wouldn\u2019t play the hell out of a beer-serving arcade game if my local watering hole had one installed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s not mince words: Someone has invented a video game that serves you beer. Specifically, that someone is the McKinney advertising agency, who built The Last Barfighter machine for its client, Big Boss Brewing. The Last Beerfighter is a fighting game that, instead of accepting quarters, activates when a motion sensor detects a player has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[905,3062,908],"tags":[1209,3971,3970,3973,3975,3972,3974,180],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16905"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16917,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16905\/revisions\/16917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}