{"id":1001,"date":"2013-09-09T09:20:23","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1001"},"modified":"2013-09-10T18:43:25","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T23:43:25","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-new-world-computing-stationary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1001\/retro-scan-of-the-week-new-world-computing-stationary","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> New World Computing Stationery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/new_world_computing_stationary_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/new_world_computing_stationary_small.jpg\" alt=\"New World Computing notepad stationery page - circa 1992\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Earth kebab<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>What you see here is a page from a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_World_Computing\" target=\"_blank\">New World Computing<\/a> notepad that shipped with either <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Might_and_Magic_III:_Isles_of_Terra\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Might and Magic III<\/em><\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Planet%27s_Edge\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Planet&#8217;s Edge<\/em><\/a>, both of which my brother bought back in the day.<\/p>\n<p>NWC made some great games, and I always thought they had the best logo of any game developer at the time.  Of all their titles, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Might_and_Magic_II:_Gates_to_Another_World\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Might and Magic II<\/em><\/a> got the most love in our household.<\/p>\n<p>(I&#8217;ve enhanced the contrast of this image a bit so you can see the logo detail, which is quite subtle otherwise.  It also brings out vintage stains and a stray pencil mark.)<\/p>\n<p> This notepad served as a nice sorta-&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/174\" target=\"_blank\">feelie<\/a>&#8221; pack-in, one that my brother actually used quite often for notes.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From New World Computing notepad, circa 1991-1992 ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> What&#8217;s your favorite New World Computing game?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earth kebab What you see here is a page from a New World Computing notepad that shipped with either Might and Magic III or Planet&#8217;s Edge, both of which my brother bought back in the day. NWC made some great games, and I always thought they had the best logo of any game developer at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,26],"tags":[313,587,584,582,585,419,583,60,586],"class_list":["post-1001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","tag-313","tag-feelie","tag-might-and-magic","tag-new-world-computing","tag-notepad","tag-pc-games","tag-planets-edge","tag-retro-scan","tag-stationery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}