{"id":487,"date":"2008-05-28T07:29:10","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T13:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/?p=487"},"modified":"2008-05-28T07:29:10","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T13:29:10","slug":"krull-memory-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/28\/krull-memory-lane\/","title":{"rendered":"Krull – Memory Lane"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"memorylane.jpg\"Ah, Krull, does anyone even remember Krull?\u00a0If you do, you can imagine how useful it’ll be. We can show our grandkids Lord of the Rings and then show them Krull (and Beastmaster, and even Willow) and they can pity us. We’d then stamp our feet and sputter “But we LIKED it!”\u00a0 – it was all we had.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Krull is an awful movie… awful in a way that’s especially wonderful if you see it as a starry-eyed tween. True love wins in the most obviously literal way possible and …\u00a0ok, that spider was damn cool!<\/p>\n

Oh, guess what? A “glaive” is not a 5 pointed throwing disc thing! It’s a polearm from France. Krull made for the stupidest D&D arguments EVER!<\/p>\n

The Video Game<\/strong><\/p>\n

Krull was also a mediocre video game.\u00a0 Video games made from movies tend to stink. Krull didn’t stink\u00a0(defying the odds) but it was derivative.<\/p>\n

Krull began on the arcade but a 2600 version was released and is still a hot collectible today and there was a Pinball version as well. Like many games of it’s time it was three games in one. First you had to run up a hill dodging boulders and collecting peices of your weapon: the (historically inaccurate) Glaive. Then you had to play a Robotron style game and save your army from Slayers. Then you had to assault the fortress, and save your men again. And then a final showdown and… where the hell are all those men you saved now that you need them?<\/p>\n

Such are video games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ah, Krull, does anyone even remember Krull?\u00a0If you do, you can imagine how useful it’ll be. We can show our grandkids Lord of the Rings and then show them Krull (and Beastmaster, and even Willow) and they can pity us. We’d then stamp our feet and sputter “But we LIKED it!”\u00a0 – it was all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}