{"id":16268,"date":"2024-09-20T13:59:06","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T12:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=16268"},"modified":"2025-08-29T17:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T16:47:12","slug":"small-town-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2024\/09\/20\/small-town-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Small town games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest <em>PC Gamer<\/em> magazine brings a review of a welcome new phenomenon, regional British comedy videogames. Or, at least, one videogame &mdash; the first of what will hopefully become a sub-genre. <em>Thank Goodness You&#8217;re Here<\/em> (August 2024) is set in Yorkshire, toon style. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230; here to educate the entire world about our nation&#8217;s obsession with sausages and bare bottoms&#8221; (<em>Rock, Paper, Shotgun<\/em> review).<\/p>\n<p>Surreal slapstick comedy, <em>Carry On<\/em> style double-entendres and innuendo, dialect and funny voices, eccentric characters&#8230; amid which you play a travelling salesman and odd-job man in the town of Barnsworth. Very odd jobs, indeed. <em>PC Gamer<\/em>&#8216;s review gives the \u00a316 game a stellar 90% score. Hopefully there will soon be a Stoke-on-Trent version.<\/p>\n<p>And while we&#8217;re waiting for that, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adsadvance.co.uk\/spitfire-cockpit-flight-simulator-launched-at-stoke-on-trent-gallery.html\">&#8220;Spitfire cockpit flight simulator launched at Stoke-on-Trent gallery&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest PC Gamer magazine brings a review of a welcome new phenomenon, regional British comedy videogames. Or, at least, one videogame &mdash; the first of what will hopefully become a sub-genre. Thank Goodness You&#8217;re Here (August 2024) is set in Yorkshire, toon style. &#8220;&#8230; here to educate the entire world about our nation&#8217;s obsession [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18056,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16268\/revisions\/18056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}