{"id":1155,"date":"2015-10-06T12:58:49","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T17:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1155"},"modified":"2015-10-06T13:12:34","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T18:12:34","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-genesis-does-what-nintendont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1155\/retro-scan-of-the-week-genesis-does-what-nintendont","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Genesis Does Contractions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/genesis_does_what_nintendont_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/genesis_does_what_nintendont_small.jpg\" alt=\"Sega Genesis advertisement Genesis Does What Nintendon't advertisement - 1991\" class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Before the Sega Scream, there was the Sega Insult<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is a rather famous early ad for the Sega Genesis that I have never featured until now.  It played upon the dramatic graphical differences between the Genesis and the NES, claiming &#8220;Genesis Does What Nintendon&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth emphasizing that Sega is comparing its console to the 8-bit NES here, and not the Super NES &#8212; Nintendo&#8217;s 16-bit machine had not yet been released in the US, allowing Sega to get a jump on the next generation in the American market.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From Video Games &#038; Computer Entertainment, January 1991, p.50-51]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> What year did you first get a Sega Genesis?  What were your first games for it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the Sega Scream, there was the Sega Insult This is a rather famous early ad for the Sega Genesis that I have never featured until now. It played upon the dramatic graphical differences between the Genesis and the NES, claiming &#8220;Genesis Does What Nintendon&#8217;t.&#8221; It&#8217;s worth emphasizing that Sega is comparing its console to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,22,27,26,9],"tags":[258,150,1195,1196,523,124,143,60,198,175,257],"class_list":["post-1155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-nes-famicom","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-retrogaming","tag-258","tag-advertisement","tag-comparison","tag-famous-ad","tag-genesis","tag-nes","tag-nintendo","tag-retro-scan","tag-sega","tag-super-nes","tag-vgce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155","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=1155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}