{"id":432,"date":"2008-03-03T11:38:28","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T16:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=432"},"modified":"2008-03-03T11:55:07","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T16:55:07","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-gorilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/432\/retro-scan-of-the-week-gorilla","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> The Super Gorilla Advantage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/gorilla_advantage_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/gorilla_advantage_small.jpg\" alt=\"SNES Super Advantage - Asciiware - Gorilla Magazine Ad\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s true: most controllers can&#8217;t stand up to the intense punishment delivered by the average <em>Donkey Kong Country<\/em> player.  That&#8217;s why Asciiware created the Super Advantage joystick for the SNES.  It&#8217;s built &#8220;gorilla tough&#8221; for &#8220;gorilla games.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Woah there &#8212; don&#8217;t try using this sophisticated piece of technology on a non-gorilla game, or that tiny gorilla (pictured) will jump out of the controller and smack you.  Just a warning: he goes straight for the eyes.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Discussion topic of the week:<\/strong> What if standard joysticks looked like this in the Atari 2600 era?  How would games have been different?<\/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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s true: most controllers can&#8217;t stand up to the intense punishment delivered by the average Donkey Kong Country player. That&#8217;s why Asciiware created the Super Advantage joystick for the SNES. It&#8217;s built &#8220;gorilla tough&#8221; for &#8220;gorilla games.&#8221; Woah there &#8212; don&#8217;t try using this sophisticated piece of technology on a non-gorilla game, or that tiny [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,17,24,26,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-collecting","category-video-game-design","category-humor","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-retrogaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","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=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}