{"id":664,"date":"2009-01-26T10:29:09","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T17:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=664"},"modified":"2009-01-26T18:07:48","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T01:07:48","slug":"california-games-louie-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=664","title":{"rendered":"California Games &#8211; LOUIE of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/H-2a6dnoOwk&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/H-2a6dnoOwk&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>This week, I&#8217;m necessarily sharing a version of LOUIE LOUIE that doesn&#8217;t necessarily excite me or entertain me.  On the other hand, this week&#8217;s LOUIE of the Week doesn&#8217;t look like a typical bar band or another marching band.  This is a version that I would categorize as &#8220;archival&#8221; or &#8220;historically-significant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a version of LOUIE LOUIE that came from a video game, shared as a YouTube clip by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/UklaMokk\">UklaMokk<\/a> of Brazil.  The game was called  &#8220;<strong>California Games<\/strong>,&#8221; which was manufactured by <strong>Epyx<\/strong> for <strong>Atari 2600<\/strong> and <strong>SEGA Master System<\/strong> game platforms. This clip actually has three versions &#8211; two computer music versions and one by &#8220;<strong>The Kingsmen<\/strong>,&#8221; which I was actually just <strong>Jack Ely <\/strong>re-recording the song without the other guys.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, this website is maintained in the Silicon Valley region, home of Apple,  Google, Intel, Yahoo, and the highly influential, extinct Atari corporation.   For what it&#8217;s worth, I live within a few miles of the original <strong>Round Table Pizza<\/strong> restaurant that was the first place where the public could play the very first Atari application &#8211; &#8220;Pong.&#8221;  The video game device is long gone, but you can still order pizza and beer at this mostly-unacknowledged California landmark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, I&#8217;m necessarily sharing a version of LOUIE LOUIE that doesn&#8217;t necessarily excite me or entertain me. On the other hand, this week&#8217;s LOUIE of the Week doesn&#8217;t look like a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,2,33,22,24,5,20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jack-ely","category-kingsmen","category-louie-of-week","category-louie-universe","category-24","category-new-versions","category-old-versions","category-production-at-louie-central"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":675,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions\/675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}