{"id":10,"date":"1999-01-21T08:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-01-21T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laaker.com\/cms\/?p=10"},"modified":"2010-02-04T23:37:18","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T07:37:18","slug":"mr-laakers-likeness-licensed-for-video-game-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/press-releases\/1999\/mr-laakers-likeness-licensed-for-video-game-development","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Laaker&#8217;s Likeness Licensed for Video Game Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"prbodycopy\">(Kansas City, MO) Thursday proved an exciting day for Micah Laaker, as he witnessed the first fruits from his recent contract insuring his likeness would be incorporated into future video games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"prbodycopy\">Sierra Entertainment, developers of many popular PC games, recently posted screenshots of their latest feat, Half-Life. Located near the center of the page was an unmistakable snapshot of Mr. Laaker in armored garb.<\/p>\n<p class=\"prbodycopy\">&#8220;Today is a very exciting day for Micah Laaker,&#8221; Mr. Laaker was quoted as saying. &#8220;Future generations are guaranteed a glimpse into what Micahs looked like near the end of the millennium.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"prbodycopy\">Sierra would neither confirm nor deny Mr. Laaker&#8217;s claims. At release time, no other developers would confirm their future use of Mr. Laaker&#8217;s image.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mlaaker\/304027225\/\" title=\"Laaker Likeness in Half-Life by mlaaker, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/99\/304027225_845cdacdf1_o.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"320\" alt=\"Laaker Likeness in Half-Life\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"prcaption\">&#8220;Gordon&#8221; a.k.a. Mr. Laaker. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mlaaker\/304027225\/\">View larger image<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Kansas City, MO) Thursday proved an exciting day for Micah Laaker, as he witnessed the first fruits from his recent contract insuring his likeness would be incorporated into future video games. Sierra Entertainment, developers of many popular PC games, recently posted screenshots of their latest feat, Half-Life. Located near the center of the page was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[450,449,451,452],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases","tag-doppelganger","tag-pr","tag-videogames","tag-wannabes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}