{
  "id": 11141549,
  "title": "\"They weren't planned out\": the messy stories behind retro gaming's golden age",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/01/they-werent-planned-out-the-messy-stories-behind-retro-gamings-golden",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-01T07:37:13.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Creative Bloq",
    "slug": "creative-bloq",
    "url": "https://www.creativebloq.com/3d/video-game-design/they-werent-planned-out-the-messy-stories-behind-retro-gamings-golden-age"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "For more than 20 years, journalist Paul Drury has interviewed the people behind coin-op classics. His new book tells their stories in their own words – messier and more human than the legend.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}