{"id":8209,"date":"2023-08-31T00:01:33","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T04:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/?p=8209"},"modified":"2023-08-20T23:15:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T03:15:30","slug":"dialed-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/2023\/08\/dialed-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Dialed In"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 404px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-8209-1\" width=\"404\" height=\"720\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/dialedin.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/dialedin.mp4\">https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/dialedin.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Dialed In, 2016, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jersey_Jack_Pinball\">Jersey Jack<\/a>. The first Jersey Jack on this list, it\u2019s an ultra-modern machine with a 26 inch flatscreen monitor in the backbox which serves as both the scoreboard and a guide to the game.<\/p>\n<p>The conceit of this machine is that you are saving a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ea.com\/games\/simcity\">SimCity<\/a>-like town from destructive forces such as aliens, volcanos, whirlwinds, EMP pulses, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the screen there\u2019s not much art directly on the backbox, just a few aliens and monsters and people pointing up and screaming at them in alarm.<\/p>\n<p>The monitor features animated clips that function as backbox art to pull players in when the game isn\u2019t running.<\/p>\n<p>The video above opens with the Jersey Jack logo, then fades to a computer animated city in the background and an animated tutorial for inserting a coin and hitting the start button in a bubble in the foreground. When in free play mode it goes on to stress that up to 4 players can play and no seriously hit the start button already.<\/p>\n<p>When that fades out an animated sign that reads \u201cWelcome to Quantum City\u201d displays. \u201cWe\u2019re probably here\u2026 and so are you!\u201d is the town\u2019s physics-joke tagline.<\/p>\n<p>After that we swap to the title card: a city skyline behind the title \u201cDialed In!\u201d Below that the subtitle \u201cWhat would you do if you had *the power*\u201d displays and a small splash of \u201cChaos in Quantum City\u201d decorates the corner of the title.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, that beautify city skyline has switched from blue skies to clouds to a meteor bombardment.<\/p>\n<p>So there\u2019s that.<\/p>\n<p>After that the game warns you that it might take your photo and how to shut that off. Then (not shown) it loops through top scores of various types and starts the process over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dialed In, 2016, Jersey Jack. The first Jersey Jack on this list, it\u2019s an ultra-modern machine with a 26 inch flatscreen monitor in the backbox which serves as both the scoreboard and a guide to the game. The conceit of this machine is that you are saving a SimCity-like town from destructive forces such as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/2023\/08\/dialed-in\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dialed In&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[218],"tags":[254,219,244,245],"class_list":["post-8209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pinball","tag-2010s-aesthetic","tag-backglass","tag-jersey-jack","tag-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdUhYo-28p","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8211,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8209\/revisions\/8211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}