{"id":231,"date":"2006-11-20T00:48:24","date_gmt":"2006-11-20T05:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=231"},"modified":"2011-05-16T08:18:15","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T13:18:15","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/231\/retro-scan-of-the-week","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">Retro Scan of the Week:<\/span> Some Wood For Your &#8216;Stick"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"caption\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/stickstation_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/stickstation_small.jpg\" alt=\"Skywriter Stick Station\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption_text\">Fresh from the Forgettable Video Game Accessories Department comes the Skywriter &#8220;Stick Station,&#8221; a $15 piece of wood for your Atari 2600 joystick.  Nobody knows what it really does, but at least you&#8217;ll have a good place to put your frosty joystick so it doesn&#8217;t leave those annoying &#8220;joystick rings&#8221; all over your coffee table during the humid summer months.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Bit of (Fictional) Trivia:<\/strong> The president of Skywriter, Larry Egler, was once famously quoted as saying, &#8220;There will be a Stick Station on every table in America by 1990.&#8221;  Few people know that it was a misquote that has been erroneously reprinted in many books on video game history.  In truth, Mr. Egler said, &#8220;There will be a table on every Stick Station in America by 1990,&#8221; a prediction that actually came true: all remaining Stick Stations in the continental United States are now being used to shore up wobbly table legs.<\/p>\n<p><em>[ From Computer Games, June 1984.  Special thanks to McPhail Hunt for donating the issue. ]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><small><em>If you use this image on your site, 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>Fresh from the Forgettable Video Game Accessories Department comes the Skywriter &#8220;Stick Station,&#8221; a $15 piece of wood for your Atari 2600 joystick. Nobody knows what it really does, but at least you&#8217;ll have a good place to put your frosty joystick so it doesn&#8217;t leave those annoying &#8220;joystick rings&#8221; all over your coffee table [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,13,24,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-design","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\/231","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=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}