{"id":330,"date":"2007-06-18T10:22:14","date_gmt":"2007-06-18T15:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/330"},"modified":"2013-11-13T10:04:38","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T15:04:38","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-war-mech-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/330\/retro-scan-of-the-week-war-mech-fun","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> War + Mech = &#8220;Kinda Cool&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"caption\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/ironsoldier_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/ironsoldier_small.jpg\" alt=\"Atari Jaguar Iron Soldier Ad\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption_text\">But war without robots?  Forget it; it&#8217;s hell.<\/p>\n<p>You should probably know by now that I love the Atari Jaguar.  Or at least <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/101\" target=\"_blank\">I did<\/a> (Read #14) when it came out.  I was a huge Atari nut back then.   <em>Iron Soldier<\/em>, the game featured in this bold, well-illustrated ad, remains one of the few truly fun games released for the Jaguar.  I only acquired it recently (well, recently as in 2001) but I&#8217;ve had a blast with it, even if the missions do feel like three-hour aimless wanderlusts of wanton destruction.  I&#8217;ll never forget the feeling of punching skyscrapers with my giant robot&#8217;s stubby fist for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Did anybody else out there have this game?  What did you think about it?<\/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>But war without robots? Forget it; it&#8217;s hell. You should probably know by now that I love the Atari Jaguar. Or at least I did (Read #14) when it came out. I was a huge Atari nut back then. Iron Soldier, the game featured in this bold, well-illustrated ad, remains one of the few truly [&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":[150,170,653,550,60],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","tag-advertisement","tag-atari","tag-iron-soldier","tag-jaguar","tag-retro-scan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","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=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}