{"id":245,"date":"2006-12-11T11:41:03","date_gmt":"2006-12-11T16:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=245"},"modified":"2006-12-11T11:45:47","modified_gmt":"2006-12-11T16:45:47","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-your-atari-christmas-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/245\/retro-scan-of-the-week-your-atari-christmas-list","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">Retro Scan of the Week:<\/span> Your Atari Christmas List"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"caption\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/atari_xmaslist_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/atari_xmaslist_small.jpg\" alt=\"Atari Christmas List\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption_text\">\n<blockquote><p>\nDear Santa,<\/p>\n<p>I would like Ms. Pac-Man, Centipede, Phoenix, Vanguard, Jungle Hunt, Kangaroo, Dig Dug, Galaxian, Pole Position, Battlezone, and Moon Patrol for Christmas.  I would also like the ATARI 5200 (TM) Super-System (The world&#8217;s most advanced video game system), the ATARI 2600 (TM) System (The world&#8217;s most popular video game system), the ATARI 5200 TRAK-BALL (TM) Controller (For the real arcade touch.  Plays more TRAK-BALL (TM) compatible games than anyone else), the ATARI VCS (TM) Cartridge Adapter (Lets your 5200 play every game made for ATARI game systems), and the ATARI TRAK-BALL (TM) Controller (For real arcade action on the ATARI 2600 (TM) System, Sears Video Arcade System and all ATARI Home Computers).<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all.  <\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<br \/>\nTommy L. Speddleman<\/p>\n<p>P.S. Send me hardware and software, not underwear!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>[ Scanned from Electronic Games, December 1983.  Special thanks to McPhail Hunt for donating this 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>Dear Santa, I would like Ms. Pac-Man, Centipede, Phoenix, Vanguard, Jungle Hunt, Kangaroo, Dig Dug, Galaxian, Pole Position, Battlezone, and Moon Patrol for Christmas. I would also like the ATARI 5200 (TM) Super-System (The world&#8217;s most advanced video game system), the ATARI 2600 (TM) System (The world&#8217;s most popular video game system), the ATARI 5200 [&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-245","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\/245","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=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}