{"id":1223,"date":"2017-01-23T14:53:49","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T19:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1223\/retro-scan-trs-80-on-christmas-morning"},"modified":"2017-01-23T15:30:25","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T20:30:25","slug":"alien-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1223\/alien-3","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan ]<\/span> Can You Take the Terror?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/alien_3_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/alien_3_small.jpg\" alt=\"Arena Entertainment Alien 3 for Sega Genesis and Game Gear advertisement scan - 1992\" class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>A very good existential question for these times<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I seem to recall <em>Alien 3<\/em> being a fairly well-received game for the Super NES.  But I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;ve ever played the Genesis version.  In fact, come to think of it, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever even seen the <em>Alien 3<\/em> film, despite being a fan of the first two films in the Alien series.<\/p>\n<p>So what do I know about this game?  Nothing!<\/p>\n<p>But I like the art in this advertisement.  Its headline question very clearly conjures up how I feel these days about uncertainties in life, the economy, and politics.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of the economy, I recently started a Patreon campaign to fund my work on this site.  In fact, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/benjedwards\" target=\"_blank\">everyone donating $10 or more a month<\/a> on Patreon is getting access to a 600 DPI version of this scan (along with access to full research interviews used in future articles).  At some point I hope to make available high-res versions of all the previous Retro Scans available to select patrons as well.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From Video Games &#038; Computer Entertainment, November 1992, p.23 ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic:<\/strong> What&#8217;s the scariest classic video game you&#8217;ve ever played (let&#8217;s say pre-1997)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very good existential question for these times I seem to recall Alien 3 being a fairly well-received game for the Super NES. But I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;ve ever played the Genesis version. In fact, come to think of it, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever even seen the Alien 3 film, despite being a fan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vcg-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223","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=1223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}