{"id":1201,"date":"2016-08-11T14:55:20","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T19:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1201"},"modified":"2016-08-11T16:01:17","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T21:01:17","slug":"retro-scan-hi-tech-expressions-nes-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1201\/retro-scan-hi-tech-expressions-nes-games","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan ]<\/span> Hi Tech Expressions NES Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/hi_tech_nes_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/hi_tech_nes_small.jpg\" alt=\"Hi Tech Expressions NES Games Flier scan - 1991\" class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>High Times with Hi Tech Expressions<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This fold-out flier celebrating NES games published by Hi Tech Expressions came packed with a NES game, likely <em>Sesame Street A-B-C and 1-2-3<\/em>. (Although the &#8220;DMG&#8221; in the flier name gives me pause, because that was Nintendo&#8217;s in-house abbreviation for the Game Boy.)<\/p>\n<p>The games shown here aren&#8217;t particularly well noted for being classics, but I am very fond of <em>Big Bird&#8217;s Hide &#038; Speak<\/em>, a fun game for small children which features impressive sampled voice work by Caroll Spinney.  I was older than the target audience when it first came out, but I have played it with my youngest daughter a number of times over the years, and she loved it.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From Hi-Tech Expressions Flier HIT-DMG-US-1, circa 1991 ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic:<\/strong> Have you ever played any educational games on the NES?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High Times with Hi Tech Expressions This fold-out flier celebrating NES games published by Hi Tech Expressions came packed with a NES game, likely Sesame Street A-B-C and 1-2-3. (Although the &#8220;DMG&#8221; in the flier name gives me pause, because that was Nintendo&#8217;s in-house abbreviation for the Game Boy.) The games shown here aren&#8217;t particularly [&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":[258,1386,1393,218,1390,319,1385,1384,1392,124,143,60,1391,1389,1387,1388],"class_list":["post-1201","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-barbie","tag-big-bird-hide-and-speak","tag-chessmaster","tag-days-of-thunder","tag-flier","tag-funhouse","tag-hi-tech-expressions","tag-kids-games","tag-nes","tag-nintendo","tag-retro-scan","tag-sesame-street","tag-the-hunt-for-red-october","tag-the-muppets","tag-tom-and-jerry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201","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=1201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}