{"id":746,"date":"2007-12-12T12:16:25","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T19:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/?p=746"},"modified":"2007-12-12T12:16:25","modified_gmt":"2007-12-12T19:16:25","slug":"cheap-thrills-on-your-ds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=746","title":{"rendered":"Cheap Thrills on your DS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, maybe &#8220;thrills&#8221; is too strong a word&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Right now Target has the Nintendo DS game <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infinite-interactive.com\/puzzlequest\/\">Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords<\/a> available in its clearance bins at the endcaps right in front of the checkout registers. It&#8217;s $15.<\/p>\n<p>The best way I can describe this one is Bejeweled meets Final Fantasy. It&#8217;s a puzzle RPG. No, I&#8217;m not kidding.<\/p>\n<p>The fellas over at Penny Arcade <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penny-arcade.com\/2007\/03\/28#1175068740\" target=\"_blank\">were pretty excited about it<\/a>, which is what got me turned onto it, and I enjoyed the hell out of it. For a few weeks there, all I seemed to do was quest my puzzling ass off every night after work.<\/p>\n<p>So if you have a DS, or if you know someone with a DS who needs a good gift but who isn&#8217;t worth cracking the $20 threshold on gift value, there you go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, maybe &#8220;thrills&#8221; is too strong a word&#8230; Right now Target has the Nintendo DS game Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords available in its clearance bins at the endcaps right in front of the checkout registers. It&#8217;s $15. The best way I can describe this one is Bejeweled meets Final Fantasy. It&#8217;s a puzzle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}