{"id":115,"date":"2006-04-10T07:00:52","date_gmt":"2006-04-10T12:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=115"},"modified":"2006-07-28T18:57:51","modified_gmt":"2006-07-28T23:57:51","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-weekgood-gobbling-and-good-luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/115\/retro-scan-of-the-weekgood-gobbling-and-good-luck","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">Retro Scan of the Week:<\/span> &#8220;Good Gobbling and Good Luck&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"caption\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/pacman_strategy_large.jpg\" target=\"new\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/pacman_strategy_small.jpg\" alt=\"Pac-Man Strategy School\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption_text\">From the golden era of fancifully-rendered video game character depictions comes this gem, a scan from the instruction manual of the Atari 800 version of <em>Pac-Man<\/em>. Considering what we actually see in the game, the illustrator (&#8220;HIRO&#8221;) has chosen quite a liberal interpretation of Pac-People,  drawing them as anthropomorphic, rubbery stick figures with giant round heads.  For more of Hiro&#8217;s skinny Pac-Men, check out <a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/pacman_atari800_manual_large.jpg\" target=\"new\">this buck-toothed Pac-Guy<\/a> running for his life while eating floating discs from the cover of the manual.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the golden era of fancifully-rendered video game character depictions comes this gem, a scan from the instruction manual of the Atari 800 version of Pac-Man. Considering what we actually see in the game, the illustrator (&#8220;HIRO&#8221;) has chosen quite a liberal interpretation of Pac-People, drawing them as anthropomorphic, rubbery stick figures with giant round [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-retro-scan-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","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=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}