{"id":1070,"date":"2014-08-18T15:50:39","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T20:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1070"},"modified":"2014-08-19T15:59:46","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T20:59:46","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-the-joust-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1070\/retro-scan-of-the-week-the-joust-guy","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> The Joust Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/joustguy_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/joustguy_small.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration from Joust Atari 2600 instruction manual - 1982\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>If I were riding a flying ostrich, I&#8217;d probably be smiling too.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t normally take scans out of context, but I made an exception for this amazing illustration.  It comes from the instruction manual for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joust_%28video_game%29\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Joust<\/em><\/a> for the Atari 2600.  I isolated the image years ago for possible use in one of my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/709\" target=\"_blank\">Halloween costume ideas<\/a> posts, and I&#8217;ve been staring at it in my scans folder ever since.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joust<\/em> is one of my favorite arcade titles, and I&#8217;m particularly fond of the Atari 7800 home version.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to find out who created this glorious piece of video game art.  I&#8217;ll do some digging in a bit, but if you know already, please leave a comment and I&#8217;ll update this post.  (The illustrator may be referenced in the manual itself, but it&#8217;s packed where I can&#8217;t get to it.)<\/p>\n<p>By the way, I think this illustration would look awesome on a t-shirt.  Anybody want to make one?<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From Joust Atari 2600 Instruction Manual &#8211; 1982]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> Which is better: <em>Joust<\/em> or <em>Balloon Fight<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I were riding a flying ostrich, I&#8217;d probably be smiling too. I don&#8217;t normally take scans out of context, but I made an exception for this amazing illustration. It comes from the instruction manual for Joust for the Atari 2600. I isolated the image years ago for possible use in one of my Halloween [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,13,27,26,9],"tags":[65,869,276,870,170,500,871,868,592,60],"class_list":["post-1070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-retrogaming","tag-65","tag-arcade","tag-art","tag-artist","tag-atari","tag-atari-2600","tag-illustrator","tag-joust","tag-manual","tag-retro-scan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070","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=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}