{"id":403,"date":"2008-10-04T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-04T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/?p=403"},"modified":"2013-11-28T09:07:08","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T14:07:08","slug":"the-defenderqbert-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/2008\/10\/04\/the-defenderqbert-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Defender\/Q*Bert panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"imagelink\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_09221.jpg\" title=\"The Defender\/Q*Bert panel\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_0922-450.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"The Defender\/Q*Bert panel\" width=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-405\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>This panel is really about playing Defender.  I <em>loved<\/em> that game as a pre-teen and spent a lot of quarters on it.  Having a panel that lets me recreate that experience is very cool.  I found a website (maybe a posting on a news group) that had the dimensions of the original Defender panel.  So I&#8217;ve reproduced those measurements on this panel.  It definitely &#8220;feels right&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>So this panel works well for both Defender and Stargate.  The joystick on the left is actually a 2-way joystick from an arcade cabinet (ebay!).  The layout of the Defender\/Stargate panel leaves a hollow gap above the main buttons.  I decided that that was a good spot to put in a 4-way joystick that has been turned 45 degrees.  Obviously that works for Q*Bert.  But it also works for Congo Bongo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This panel is really about playing Defender. I loved that game as a pre-teen and spent a lot of quarters on it. Having a panel that lets me recreate that experience is very cool. I found a website (maybe a posting on a news group) that had the dimensions of the original Defender panel. So [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-frinkiac7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":496,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions\/496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}