{"id":5957,"date":"2021-11-21T21:21:26","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T04:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=5957"},"modified":"2021-11-21T21:30:40","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T04:30:40","slug":"big-bad-game-a-thon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=5957","title":{"rendered":"Bad Games are the Best Games"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the retro gaming crazy has been playing itself out, there&#8217;s still a section of old games that I find is almost always more fun. Even during Games Done Quick, the bad games block seems to be one of the most popular sections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NeYOmLlzz3E?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;start=47&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But what if you had a WHOLE game-a-thon that&#8217;s just bad games? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Big Bad Game-a-Thon<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bigbadgameathon.com\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.bigbadgameathon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Big Bad Game-a-Thon<\/a> comes around every year and gives some great performances. Give some of their videos a watch:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/BigBadGameathon\/videos\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/BigBadGameathon\/videos<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s a list of the games played in the 2021 session to whet your appetite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/horaro.org\/bbg2021\/schedule?key=2021\">https:\/\/horaro.org\/bbg2021\/schedule?key=2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Don&#8217;t Make Us Bored<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another great series of people playing bad games is the &#8216;Don&#8217;t Make Us Bored&#8217; variety show run by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCgaFeUtJktfC5QrDdxdDcfg\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCgaFeUtJktfC5QrDdxdDcfg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Brossentia<\/a>. Players come onto his show and play through some truly bad games. It&#8217;s a whole lot of fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eIglgDXOuIs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent&#038;listType=playlist&#038;list=PL1D4gIrFL5KkeMD5i80VzPXT1a5qgwnb_\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the retro gaming crazy has been playing itself out, there&#8217;s still a section of old games that I find is almost always more fun. Even during Games Done Quick, the bad games block seems to be one of the most popular sections. But what if you had a WHOLE game-a-thon that&#8217;s just bad games? Big Bad Game-a-Thon The Big Bad Game-a-Thon comes around every year and gives some great performances. Give some of their videos a watch: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/BigBadGameathon\/videos Here&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=5957\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-1y5","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5957"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5960,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5957\/revisions\/5960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}