{"id":1112,"date":"2015-02-16T10:23:47","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T15:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1112\/retro-scan-of-the-week-mega-man-8"},"modified":"2015-02-17T10:39:32","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T15:39:32","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-mega-man-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1112\/retro-scan-of-the-week-mega-man-8","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Mega Man 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/megaman_8_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/megaman_8_small.jpg\" alt=\"Capcom Mega Man 8 Sega Saturn advertisement - GamePro February 1997\" class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>You are getting sleeeeepy<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Mega Man 8<\/em> remains notable in my mind for its resistance to polygonal 3D graphics at a time when the media perceived that as a requirement for sales success (in the PlayStation-dominated console era).  I remember renting it and being impressed by its fluidity and gameplay, although it was too difficult and frustrating for me to play for more than ten minutes in a sitting.<\/p>\n<p>But then again, all the side-scrolling <em>Mega Man<\/em> games have been that way for me.  I&#8217;m still partial to Mega Man 2, 3, and X, though.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From GamePro &#8211; February 1997, p.115 ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> What&#8217;s your favorite entry in the main-line <em>Mega Man<\/em> (1-10) series?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are getting sleeeeepy Mega Man 8 remains notable in my mind for its resistance to polygonal 3D graphics at a time when the media perceived that as a requirement for sales success (in the PlayStation-dominated console era). I remember renting it and being impressed by its fluidity and gameplay, although it was too difficult [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,26,9],"tags":[213,206,1042,150,178,205,573,1041,359,60,549,198,548],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-retrogaming","tag-213","tag-206","tag-2d-graphics","tag-advertisement","tag-capcom","tag-gamepro","tag-mega-man","tag-mega-man-8","tag-playstation","tag-retro-scan","tag-saturn","tag-sega","tag-sony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112","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=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}