{"id":12989,"date":"2020-05-11T09:35:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T08:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=12989"},"modified":"2020-05-11T09:36:36","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T08:36:36","slug":"incredible-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=12989","title":{"rendered":"Incredible Games"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We&#8217;ve hit the motherlode, if you missed this last week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCy_JTMYrMEmAAsfvwKnEffQ\">this Youtube channel<\/a> has uploaded loads of episodes of series two of <strong>Incredible Games<\/strong>. The one with Gary Parker as SAM, the lift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-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=\"665\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r9NyouWp9cY?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\" 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>The games are really pretty good (although really there needs to be more of them, or at least a better rotation), it&#8217;s surprising that there&#8217;s little explanation of how levels translate to the time penalty for the Penthouse in most of the episodes (it&#8217;s three minutes minus five seconds for every ten levels they&#8217;re short of 200).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was always a big fan of the show&#8217;s aesthetic. Series two is much less silly without David Walliams at the helm, possibly to the show&#8217;s detriment, possibly not, this shows up in the types of games that survived the cut from series one &#8211; The Dark Knight and Alphabet Soup is in, Planet Susan (which I quite liked), that sound effects game and the quickie games played on the monitor are out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve hit the motherlode, if you missed this last week this Youtube channel has uploaded loads of episodes of series two of Incredible Games. The one with Gary Parker as SAM, the lift. The games are really pretty good (although really there needs to be more of them, or at least a better rotation), it&#8217;s\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=12989\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-3nv","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}