{"id":264,"date":"2008-12-12T00:16:24","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T05:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=264"},"modified":"2008-12-12T00:17:54","modified_gmt":"2008-12-12T05:17:54","slug":"gameroom-russell-house-1990s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=264","title":{"rendered":"Gameroom, Russell House USC: 1990s(?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/12\/gameroom01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/12\/gameroom01_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I was at USC, this space, on the second floor of the Russell House next to the fast-food area housed the student gameroom.  I believe it had pool tables, but this being the 80s, what interested me were the video games of which there were a multitude.<\/p>\n<p>I particularly remember playing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Galaxian\">Galaxian<\/a> which was sort of a Space Invaders clone except that the invaders were space-ships and could dive down on you.  Galaxian was quickly ousted from my affections however by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Galaxian\">Gorf<\/a> a game which itself included a Galaxian clone as one of its levels.  You almost never see these games anymore, but my next love (which I played much more at <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=13\">Robos<\/a> than at Russell House) was another Galaxian follow-up <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Galaga\">Galaga<\/a>.  I still see and play this game today.  (Though not until my hands bleed, I must admit).<\/p>\n<p>I don't know when it happened, but on my most recent visit to Russell House, I found that the old gameroom had been re-purposed into a student government office of some sort, and that a  <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=199\">new gameroom named after the old student bar, <i>The Golden Spur<\/i><\/a> had been established in the failed basement mall area of Russell House.<\/p>\n<p>To me it would make more sense to keep Student Government out of sight in the basement, and have folks having fun in the daylight..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was at USC, this space, on the second floor of the Russell House next to the fast-food area housed the student gameroom. I believe it had pool tables, but this being the 80s, what interested me were the video games of which there were a multitude. I particularly remember playing Galaxian which was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[15,5],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-entertainment","tag-historic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}