{"id":1185,"date":"2016-01-25T16:09:03","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T21:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1185"},"modified":"2016-02-01T15:54:04","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T20:54:04","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-nintendocom-promo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1185\/retro-scan-of-the-week-nintendocom-promo","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> 1995 Nintendo.com Promo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/nintendo_website_promo_1995_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/nintendo_website_promo_1995_small.jpg\" alt=\"Nintendo Nintendo.com Website promo AOL Keyword NOA Nintendo Power Advertisement Scan - 1995\" class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Crap.  I spilled toxic waste on my keyboard again.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always wondered who made these in-house Nintendo promos\/ads for Nintendo Power magazine.  Most of them were fairly well done over the years.  This vivid promo, featuring Nintendo&#8217;s early website in 1995, is probably one of my favorites.  It also mentions AOL (keyword &#8220;NOA&#8221;), of course, which was still a big online player at the time.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, anyone who can convincingly explain (with in-world fiction, not marketing) the presence of a poison\/toxic waste barrel on this kid&#8217;s desk wins 10 cocoa points.  Even Diddy Kong sitting there makes more sense.<\/p>\n<p><em>[<strong>Update: 02\/01\/2016<\/strong> &#8211; It turns out that the toxic waste barrel is actually a boss character named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mariowiki.com\/Dumb_Drum\" target=\"_blank\">Dumb Drum<\/a> from <\/em>Donkey Kong Country<em>. Special thanks to etranist for pointing that out in the comments. ]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From Nintendo Power, August 1995, back cover ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> What&#8217;s the first video game website you ever looked at online?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crap. I spilled toxic waste on my keyboard again. I&#8217;ve always wondered who made these in-house Nintendo promos\/ads for Nintendo Power magazine. Most of them were fairly well done over the years. This vivid promo, featuring Nintendo&#8217;s early website in 1995, is probably one of my favorites. It also mentions AOL (keyword &#8220;NOA&#8221;), of course, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,7,13,35,27,26,9,10],"tags":[151,1320,143,129,1332,1232,1334,60,1333],"class_list":["post-1185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bbs-history","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-151","tag-aol","tag-nintendo","tag-nintendo-power","tag-nintendo-com","tag-online-history","tag-promos","tag-retro-scan","tag-websites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185","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=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}