{"id":1181,"date":"2016-01-04T15:08:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T20:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2016-02-01T15:56:06","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T20:56:06","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-aol-game-disk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1181\/retro-scan-of-the-week-aol-game-disk","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> AOL Game Disk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/aol_game_disk_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/aol_game_disk_small.jpg\" alt=\"GamePro AOL Game Disk Package - 1996\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>click on the image above to see front and back<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve previously featured a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/764\/retro-scan-of-the-week-aol-titanium-50-cd\" target=\"_blank\">scan of an AOL CD<\/a>, but so far I have not ventured into the world of America Online floppy disk packaging&#8230;until now.  Here is a gaming-centric AOL giveaway disk package &#8212; still unopened &#8212; which I believe came with an issue of GamePro magazine I received as part of a subscription in 1996.<\/p>\n<p>I love the AOL screenshot printed on the package here (possibly mocked up for marketing purposes) because it offers a rare glimpse into the mid-1990s AOL interface (with a Windows 3.1 window motif), centered on &#8220;The Games Channel.&#8221;  If anybody has a collection of AOL screenshots from the 1990s, I&#8217;d love to see them.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From AOL disk package, circa 1996, front and back ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> Did you ever play games on America Online back in the day? Tell us about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>click on the image above to see front and back I&#8217;ve previously featured a scan of an AOL CD, but so far I have not ventured into the world of America Online floppy disk packaging&#8230;until now. Here is a gaming-centric AOL giveaway disk package &#8212; still unopened &#8212; which I believe came with an issue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,37,7,13,35,27,26,9,10],"tags":[213,1320,1321,205,260,1323,1322,689,1306,60],"class_list":["post-1181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bbs-history","category-computer-games","category-computer-info-and-history","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-internet-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-retrogaming","category-computers","tag-213","tag-aol","tag-disk","tag-gamepro","tag-mmos","tag-neverwinter-nights","tag-online-games","tag-online-services","tag-packaging","tag-retro-scan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181","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=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}