{"id":337,"date":"2001-04-20T09:58:10","date_gmt":"2001-04-20T13:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dpad.ca\/wp\/2001\/04\/20\/boing\/"},"modified":"2001-04-20T09:58:10","modified_gmt":"2001-04-20T13:58:10","slug":"boing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dpad.ca\/wp1\/2001\/04\/20\/boing\/","title":{"rendered":"Boing!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dpad.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/joe80x80.jpg?w=1080\" alt=\"Joe\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" \/><em>For those who may not remember, <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/ps2.ign.com\/articles\/163\/163592p1.html\">The Bouncer<\/a><em> was one of the early PS2 titles. This next-gen fighting game by Square rode into stores on an immense wave of hype and nearly everyone who bought a PS2 at launch made it part of their bundle. We sold a tonne of copies to rabid gamers who were promised a revolutionary gaming experience with branching story lines, destructible environments and movie-quality visuals. Then, a few days later, the inevitable ebb of that wave of hype brought more copies of the game back to the store for a refund than any game I&#8217;d ever seen. (Yes, we accepted returns on games then, a largely unheard of practice, but it was a point of differentiation and earned us more loyal customers than it did abusers.) <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Bouncer<em> wasn&#8217;t a terrible game, it was a mediocre fighter with lame controls but it had nice visuals. Unfortunately, with the nation in the grip of PS2 mania, those who were lucky enough to get their hands on a PS2 were not willing to settle for mediocre. They didn&#8217;t stand in line at midnight and drop upwards of $700 for mediocre. And so, the game was returned in comically absurd proportions.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who may not remember, The Bouncer was one of the early PS2 titles. This next-gen fighting game by Square rode into stores on an immense wave of hype and nearly everyone who bought a PS2 at launch made it part of their bundle. We sold a tonne of &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link bs-book_btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dpad.ca\/wp1\/2001\/04\/20\/boing\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpad.ca\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpad.ca\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpad.ca\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpad.ca\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpad.ca\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpad.ca\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpad.ca\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpad.ca\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpad.ca\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}