{"id":255,"date":"2007-01-01T14:12:07","date_gmt":"2007-01-01T19:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=255"},"modified":"2007-01-01T14:21:59","modified_gmt":"2007-01-01T19:21:59","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-omega-race-cartoon-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/255\/retro-scan-of-the-week-omega-race-cartoon-ad","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">Retro Scan of the Week:<\/span> &#8220;Omega Race Finally Comes Home!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"caption\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/omegarace_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/omegarace_small.jpg\" alt=\"Omega Race Advertisement\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption_text\">Archie?  Is that you?<\/p>\n<p>They just don&#8217;t make game ads like they used to.  Say, did anybody have the Booster Grip accessory that came with <em>Omega Race<\/em>?  I&#8217;d never even heard of it until I came across this ad.  I&#8217;m guessing that it plugged into the 2nd player port to provide the extra controls &#8212; a really neat idea.  The quantity and diversity of hardware accessories made for the Atari 2600 is astounding.  Somebody should compile a list of them someday, if they haven&#8217;t already.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, Happy 2007!<\/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>Archie? Is that you? They just don&#8217;t make game ads like they used to. Say, did anybody have the Booster Grip accessory that came with Omega Race? I&#8217;d never even heard of it until I came across this ad. I&#8217;m guessing that it plugged into the 2nd player port to provide the extra controls &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-retro-scan-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","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=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}