{"id":203449,"date":"2025-10-05T14:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T14:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/203449\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T14:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T14:27:08","slug":"father-and-son-convert-school-bus-into-gaming-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/203449\/","title":{"rendered":"Father and son convert school bus into gaming museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jason, 52, said: &#8220;Luke just said a lot of his friends can&#8217;t go there [the museum], they can&#8217;t afford it and he&#8217;d really like to build a bus and take it round to people to inspire them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re mad enough to have built it and here we are.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They started the process in September last year after visiting the Centre for Computing History, which has provided some of the equipment to help them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They bought the bus in January, refurbished it, and held their first workshops in July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The bus has an old computer previously used to edit Hollywood films, which students can take apart and study. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It also has 10 different computers and consoles from the 1990s such as a Sega Dreamcast, Nintendo 64 and an Atari 2600 from 1978.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jason, 52, said: &#8220;Luke just said a lot of his friends can&#8217;t go there [the museum], they can&#8217;t&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[191,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-203449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-computing","9":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}