{"id":194,"date":"2016-06-23T11:52:06","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T16:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techsongs.com\/?p=194"},"modified":"2016-06-23T12:17:28","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T17:17:28","slug":"baked-at-atari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techsongs.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/23\/baked-at-atari\/","title":{"rendered":"Baked At Atari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/252193473&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This song, entirely fictional but stacked with references to real Atari products and employees, was inspired by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidkushner.com\/article\/sex-drugs-video-games\/\">now legendary tales<\/a> of drug use at Atari during the 1970s.  Hope you enjoy it.<\/p>\n<p>Lyrics:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWell I was baked,<br \/>\nBaked at Atari;<br \/>\nI lost my mind<br \/>\nI lost my mind.<\/p>\n<p>I took Joe&#8217;s shrooms,<br \/>\nBut I&#8217;m not sorry<br \/>\n&#8216;Cause he took mine,<br \/>\nyes he took mine.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m seeing race cars on the floor<br \/>\nAnd Alan Alcorn thinks he is a dwarf<br \/>\nAnd all the tiny men that live in Nolan&#8217;s beard<br \/>\nAre telling me to work.<\/p>\n<p>Well I was baked,<br \/>\nBaked at Atari;<br \/>\nI lost my mind<br \/>\nI lost my mind.<\/p>\n<p>Took LSD,<br \/>\nBut I&#8217;m not sorry,<br \/>\n&#8216;Cause I took mine,<br \/>\nYes I took mine.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m playing Pong against the rain<br \/>\nand Bristow thinks he&#8217;s flowing down the drain again.<br \/>\nAnd all the tiny men that live in Nolan&#8217;s beard<br \/>\nare climbing in my brain.<\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s time<br \/>\nto slay the demons running through my mind<br \/>\nOn my screen,<br \/>\nI&#8217;m the game, and they&#8217;ve been playing me,<br \/>\nBut I ain&#8217;t free; I&#8217;m 25 cents a piece.<\/p>\n<p>Yes I was baked,<br \/>\nBaked at Atari;<br \/>\nI lost my mind<br \/>\nI lost my mind.<\/p>\n<p>I sniffed Ron&#8217;s coke,<br \/>\nBut I&#8217;m not sorry<br \/>\n&#8216;Cause he sniffed mine,<br \/>\nyes he sniffed mine.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m playing Gotcha with Colleen<br \/>\nDecuir just drove a tank across the street<br \/>\nAnd all the little tiny men that usually make a home in Nolan&#8217;s beard<br \/>\nare telling me to flee!<\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s time<br \/>\nto slay the demons running through my mind<br \/>\nOn my screen,<br \/>\nI&#8217;m the game, and they&#8217;ve been playing me.<br \/>\nSet me free &#8212; I&#8217;m 25 cents a piece.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=techsongs\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This song, entirely fictional but stacked with references to real Atari products and employees, was inspired by the now legendary tales of drug use at Atari during the 1970s. Hope you enjoy it. Lyrics: Well I was baked, Baked at Atari; I lost my mind I lost my mind. I took Joe&#8217;s shrooms, But I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techsongs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techsongs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techsongs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techsongs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techsongs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.techsongs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202,"href":"https:\/\/www.techsongs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techsongs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techsongs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techsongs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}