{"id":1008,"date":"2013-10-21T15:27:30","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T20:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1008"},"modified":"2013-10-22T07:21:52","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T12:21:52","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-microdeal-atari-st-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1008\/retro-scan-of-the-week-microdeal-atari-st-games","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> The Lure of Game Graphics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/microdeal_atarist_games_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/microdeal_atarist_games_small.jpg\" alt=\"Microdeal Leatherneck Tanglewood Atari ST 1040ST computer games - 1988\" class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Microdeal&#8217;s Leatherneck and Tanglewood for the Atari ST<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never played either of these Atari ST games by Microdeal, but they look like fun.  &#8220;Look&#8221; being the operative word.  That&#8217;s because, as we all know, a screenshot alone is a poor judge of a game.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, I recall being burned by screenshots many times back in the day.  While browsing at Babbage&#8217;s or Software Etc. (former software retail chains), my brother and I would flip over various game boxes and ogle amazing, colorful in-game shots that would make us want to buy everything on the shelf.<\/p>\n<p>If we did buy a game, we&#8217;d rush home and load it up.  Nine times out of ten, those glorious box screenshots turned out to be the only pretty graphical scenes (often static) in the game.  Or &#8212; even worse &#8212; the screenshots were from the uber-colorful Amiga \/ VGA \/ etc. version when in fact we were buying the Apple II version of the game (or we only had an EGA graphics card).  Doh.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From STart, Summer 1988, rear cover ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> Did you ever buy a game based on graphics alone &#8212; then come to regret it later?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microdeal&#8217;s Leatherneck and Tanglewood for the Atari ST I&#8217;ve never played either of these Atari ST games by Microdeal, but they look like fun. &#8220;Look&#8221; being the operative word. That&#8217;s because, as we all know, a screenshot alone is a poor judge of a game. In fact, I recall being burned by screenshots many times [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,37,7,27,26,9,10],"tags":[181,150,314,418,618,615,614,60,617,619,616],"class_list":["post-1008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-computer-games","category-computer-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-retrogaming","category-computers","tag-181","tag-advertisement","tag-atari-st","tag-computer-games","tag-graphics","tag-leatherneck","tag-microdeal","tag-retro-scan","tag-screenshot","tag-start","tag-tanglewood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008","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=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}