{"id":2949,"date":"2021-02-10T17:08:46","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T22:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=2949"},"modified":"2021-02-10T17:10:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T22:10:15","slug":"retro-scan-the-1989-game-boy-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/2949\/retro-scan-the-1989-game-boy-box","title":{"rendered":"[ Retro Scan ]<\/span> The 1989 Game Boy Box"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Nintendo<\/a>Now you’re playing with…glowing robot hands?!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Nintendo<\/a>Brother and sister are finally getting along with “Multiple Player Action.”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

A friend recently noticed I haven’t posted a new Retro Scan since 2019<\/a> (by the way—wasn’t 2020 hell?), so I thought I’d dig through the archives and look for something fun. My scanner isn’t even hooked up at the moment. That’s how long it’s been!<\/p>\n

Here’s a nice high-resolution scan of the Nintendo Game Boy<\/a> box art, front and back, that I scanned a few years ago for an article. One of the most fascinating things about it for me is how the text on the back refers to the Game Boy’s D-pad as a “cross key joystick.” As far as I know, this is the first and only time I’ve seen it described that way. So maybe that’s the official Nintendo term for the D-pad?<\/p>\n

I know I’ve let this site wither on the vine for too long, but I’m glad some people are still out there reading it. Hope you enjoy the scan.<\/p>\n

[ From Nintendo Game Boy North American Box, 1989, Front and Rear ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

Discussion Topic:<\/strong> What’s your favorite Game Boy game?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now you’re playing with…glowing robot hands?! Brother and sister are finally getting along with “Multiple Player Action.” A friend recently noticed I haven’t posted a new Retro Scan since 2019 (by the way—wasn’t 2020 hell?), so I thought I’d dig through the archives and look for something fun. My scanner isn’t even hooked up at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,13,27,26,9],"tags":[793,184,162,143,1295,60],"class_list":["post-2949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-design","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-retrogaming","tag-793","tag-box-art","tag-game-boy","tag-nintendo","tag-portable-console","tag-retro-scan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949","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=2949"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2969,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949\/revisions\/2969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}