{"id":367614,"date":"2010-02-26T15:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5481148"},"modified":"2010-02-26T15:20:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T20:20:00","slug":"in-store-gaming-kiosks-through-the-ages-retromodo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/367614","title":{"rendered":"In-Store Gaming Kiosks Through the Ages [Retromodo]"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>I never owned a Nintendo 64, and that was totally fine. See, I lived within biking distance of a Blockbuster.<\/p>\n

Despite its gradual decline on account of downloadable demos and general console popularity (if you don’t have one, one of your friends does), the in-store kiosk is still going strong—walk into any Best Buy or GameStop, and you can play a Wii, a PS3, and an Xbox, or even a PSP and a DS. And just like in the 80s and 90s, the kiosk’s chances of the coveted trifecta of retail demo gaming (switched on, connected to working controllers, and playing a non-demo version of a game without time limits) hover at around 10%.<\/p>\n

Anyway, Kombo’s rounded up visual history<\/a> of some of the most memorable console demo stations, and I defy any of you to make it through without suffering through at least two military grade Circuit City line-battle flashbacks. It’s my turn, you turd<\/em>. [Kombo<\/a>]<\/p>\n



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I never owned a Nintendo 64, and that was totally fine. See, I lived within biking distance of a Blockbuster. Despite its gradual decline on account of downloadable demos and general console popularity (if you don’t have one, one of your friends does), the in-store kiosk is still going strong—walk into any Best Buy or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1552,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1552"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}