{"id":356,"date":"2006-11-19T23:55:08","date_gmt":"2006-11-20T06:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/licensed-schlock\/"},"modified":"2006-11-20T00:01:07","modified_gmt":"2006-11-20T07:01:07","slug":"licensed-schlock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/licensed-schlock\/","title":{"rendered":"Licensed Schlock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While browsing at a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salvationarmyusa.org\/\">Salvation Army<\/a> store this past weekend I found a bin of old CD-ROMs. Naturally, I just had to get a few. Actually, I probably would have taken most of the bin if the merchandise was less than a static $2 per disc. But there was at least one disc I just couldn&#8217;t pass up&#8211; a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tacobell.com\/\">Taco Bell<\/a>-themed computer game. Tek Kids something or other, and disc 2 of 4 to boot. It likely came with a children&#8217;s meal for little or no cost above and beyond the cost of the meal. This means I probably paid more for it than the original customer did. Still, I look forward to seeing what the thing is all about.<\/p>\n<p>I also recently learned that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burgerking.com\/\">Burger King<\/a> is running a promotional Xbox game tie-in where customers can purchase one of 3 BK-themed Xbox\/Xbox 360 games for a nominal price in addition to their meal. Collect them all!<\/p>\n<p>This all reminds me that I have a pile of licensed schlock game titles to review for multimedia purposes, many procured from a variety of garage sales (and many which still need permanent homes is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/\">MobyGames<\/a> database). You-have-to-see-it-to-believe-it titles include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tek Kids Flash Ops&#8211; Mission: Polar Challenge (the aforementioned Taco Bell game)<\/li>\n<li>Snowday: The Gap Kids Quest<\/li>\n<li>Little Caesar&#8217;s Fractions Pizza<\/li>\n<li>Kellogg&#8217;s Pop-Tarts Presents: Rescue The Rusties<\/li>\n<li>13 Days of Halloween: Rhythm And Boos (breakfast cereal tie-in)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/game\/windows\/capn-crunchs-crunchling-adventure\">Cap&#8217;n Crunch&#8217;s Crunchling Adventure<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/eggs\/images\/game-backlog.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/eggs\/images\/game-backlog-small.jpg\" alt=\"Game backlog\" \/><br \/>\n<em>click for a closer look<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>And this further reminds me what kind of a backlog I&#8217;m still looking at for my <a href=\"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/mmjournal.html\">Multimedia Exploration Journal<\/a>. Some people observe that I&#8217;m the only person they know that thinks it&#8217;s a chore to work through this many games; the only person who sighs and talks about how many games are yet to &#8220;be processed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the path I&#8217;ve chosen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While browsing at a Salvation Army store this past weekend I found a bin of old CD-ROMs. Naturally, I just had to get a few. Actually, I probably would have taken most of the bin if the merchandise was less than a static $2 per disc. But there was at least one disc I just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}