{"id":1087,"date":"2014-10-27T12:04:09","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T17:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1087"},"modified":"2015-09-08T09:05:09","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T14:05:09","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-meaty-evil-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1087\/retro-scan-of-the-week-meaty-evil-legend","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Meaty Evil Legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/meaty_evil_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/meaty_evil_small.jpg\" alt=\"Meaty Evil Seika Legend SNES Super NES video game advertisement - 1993\" class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>MEAT IS NEAT<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I thought I had some Halloween-themed scans saved up for this year, but it looks like I don&#8217;t.  My magazines are in cold storage at the moment (buried somewhere under the Arctic tundra), so I can&#8217;t get to them to scan a new one.<\/p>\n<p>Time to fall back on some old scans.  This looks pretty scary, right?  I wouldn&#8217;t like to run into that zombie warrior in person.<\/p>\n<p>Thinking back, I recall that I scanned this particular ad for Seika&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Legend_%281994_video_game%29\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Legend<\/em><\/a> in 2006 while working on my Game Ads A-Go-Go column (Simon Carless thought of that name, by the way) for the now defunct <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesetwatch.com\">GameSetWatch<\/a>.  Back then, I didn&#8217;t keep track of which issue each scan came from, so I&#8217;ll have to come back later and update the post when I run across the ad in a magazine again.<\/p>\n<p><em>[Update: 09\/07\/2015 &#8211; I found the source for this scan and updated the info below.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As for the game this page advertises, I know very little about it.  I just now played <em>Legend<\/em> in a Super NES emulator to refresh my memory.  It is a fantasy-themed arcade beat-em-up similar to <em>Golden Axe<\/em>.  It controls like sludge (your guy moves with the speed and agility of a slug) but has two-player co-op (always a winning feature) and is fairly fun if you have the patience to stick with it.<\/p>\n<p>Me?  I don&#8217;t like walking at 0.3 miles per hour in a game, so I only played it for two minutes.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From Electronic Gaming Monthly, November 1993, p.90]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> What&#8217;s your favorite beat-em-up game?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEAT IS NEAT I thought I had some Halloween-themed scans saved up for this year, but it looks like I don&#8217;t. My magazines are in cold storage at the moment (buried somewhere under the Arctic tundra), so I can&#8217;t get to them to scan a new one. Time to fall back on some old scans. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27,26,9],"tags":[97,150,935,295,937,697,936,934,60,933,696,175],"class_list":["post-1087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-retrogaming","tag-97","tag-advertisement","tag-beat-em-up","tag-egm","tag-game-ads-a-go-go","tag-gamesetwatch","tag-golden-axe","tag-legend","tag-retro-scan","tag-seika","tag-simon-carless","tag-super-nes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087","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=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}