{"id":66,"date":"2011-07-05T08:01:23","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T08:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/jason\/projects\/?p=66"},"modified":"2011-07-14T01:57:50","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T01:57:50","slug":"ulak-tartysh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/jason\/projects\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"Ulak-Tartysh!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vgg.com\/jason\/projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/jdt_ulak8bit.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-67\" title=\"Ulak-Tartysh\" src=\"https:\/\/vgg.com\/jason\/projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/jdt_ulak8bit.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vgg.com\/jason\/projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/jdt_ulak8bit.jpeg 350w, https:\/\/vgg.com\/jason\/projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/jdt_ulak8bit-227x300.jpg 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a>Ulak-Tartysh, also known as Buzakshi, is a sport played in Kyrgyzstan that is best described as polo, but instead of a ball, a decapitated goat carcass. It&#8217;s also the name and subject of an arcade game I made, and passed off as genuine as part of a hoax.<\/p>\n<p>It was made for the i am 8 bit show in 2008, and the story was that it was a genuine, Kyrgyz video game built in 1983; I even included a dummy circuit board inside with Soviet-bloc named chips. I had an absurd story about trying to import a Polski-Fiat and ending up with this. More details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/07\/24\/dead-goat-polo-arcad.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5323194\/insert-kopeks-to-enjoy-this-goat+carcass-polo-game\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The game is totally playable with one or two players, and was designed to fit 80s-era and Soviet bloc technological limitations, with all custom cabinet art, marquee, controls, etc.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vgg.com\/jason\/projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/n6003191_42356210_7188407.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-68 aligncenter\" title=\"Ulak-Tartysh Title Screenshot\" src=\"https:\/\/vgg.com\/jason\/projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/n6003191_42356210_7188407-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ulak-Tartysh, also known as Buzakshi, is a sport played in Kyrgyzstan that is best described as polo, but instead of a ball, a decapitated goat carcass. It&#8217;s also the name and subject of an arcade game I made, and passed off as genuine as part of a hoax. It was made for the i am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8-bit","category-fine-ish-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/jason\/projects\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/jason\/projects\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/jason\/projects\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/jason\/projects\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/jason\/projects\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/jason\/projects\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/jason\/projects\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/jason\/projects\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/jason\/projects\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/jason\/projects\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}