{"id":509,"date":"2025-10-14T22:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T05:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erraticplay.com\/?p=509"},"modified":"2025-10-14T22:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T05:40:08","slug":"talking-joystick-history-on-the-podcast-endless-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erraticplay.com\/?p=509","title":{"rendered":"Talking joystick history on the podcast Endless Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I sat down with Amory Sivertson of Endless Thread (at WBUR &#8211; Boston) for some interviews that wound up becoming a just-released podcast epidosde in the Endless Thread\/99% Invisible co-produced series &#8220;Hidden Levels&#8221;&#8211; a fun and far-reaching investigation of videogame history and culture. I&#8217;m featured in episdode 2, titled &#8220;Stick It to &#8216;Em,&#8221; which recounts some of the early history of joysticks and thumbstick controllers. Check out the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/endlessthread\/2025\/10\/10\/hidden-levels-joysticks\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/endlessthread\/2025\/10\/10\/hidden-levels-joysticks\">here<\/a>! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/erraticplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"523\" src=\"https:\/\/erraticplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/erraticplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image.png 1000w, https:\/\/erraticplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/erraticplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-768x402.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sat down with Amory Sivertson of Endless Thread (at WBUR &#8211; Boston) for some interviews that wound up becoming a just-released podcast epidosde in the Endless Thread\/99% Invisible co-produced series &#8220;Hidden Levels&#8221;&#8211; a fun and far-reaching investigation of videogame &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/erraticplay.com\/?p=509\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erraticplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erraticplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erraticplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erraticplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erraticplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/erraticplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":511,"href":"https:\/\/erraticplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions\/511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erraticplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erraticplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erraticplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}