{"id":158,"date":"2006-07-17T11:52:43","date_gmt":"2006-07-17T16:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=158"},"modified":"2006-07-25T17:20:24","modified_gmt":"2006-07-25T22:20:24","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-freaky-caterpillar-ships-12-oclock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/158\/retro-scan-of-the-week-freaky-caterpillar-ships-12-oclock","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">Retro Scan of the Week:<\/span> Freaky Caterpillar Ships, 12 O&#8217;Clock!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"caption\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/galaxian_large.jpg\" target=\"new\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/galaxian_small.jpg\" alt=\"Galaxian 2600\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption_text\">Sure, you&#8217;ve probably seen this picture before &#8212; it&#8217;s the cover of the Atari 2600 version of <em>Galaxian<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>But look again.  Have you <em>really<\/em> seen this picture?  Have you ever stopped and thought about what&#8217;s actually going on here?<\/p>\n<p>No, I&#8217;m not going to tell you, because I have no idea either.  But the commenter with the best description wins a free chocolate donut.<\/p>\n<p><small><em>If you use this image in a blog post, please support &#8220;Retro Scan of the Week&#8221; by giving us obvious credit for the original scan and entry.  Thanks.<\/em><\/small><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sure, you&#8217;ve probably seen this picture before &#8212; it&#8217;s the cover of the Atari 2600 version of Galaxian. But look again. Have you really seen this picture? Have you ever stopped and thought about what&#8217;s actually going on here? No, I&#8217;m not going to tell you, because I have no idea either. But the commenter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,24,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-humor","category-retro-scan-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","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=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}