{"id":442,"date":"2008-03-24T12:05:51","date_gmt":"2008-03-24T17:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=442"},"modified":"2008-03-24T12:32:36","modified_gmt":"2008-03-24T17:32:36","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-child-as-executioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/442\/retro-scan-of-the-week-child-as-executioner","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Child as Executioner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/2p_hangman_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/2p_hangman_small.jpg\" alt=\"Talking Whiz-Kid 2 Player Hangman Program Card\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Exhibit A: Talking Whiz-Kid Program Card #43 (1987)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Nothing captures the childlike zeal and enthusiasm most kids have to murder grown adults like this illustration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/441\" target=\"_blank\">from 1987<\/a>.  A young boy mercilessly withholds the &#8220;answer&#8221; from a balding, middle aged man &#8212; ruthlessly toying with his life &#8212; while the innocent adult faces imminent death at the end of a hangman&#8217;s noose.<\/p>\n<p>And for what?  I couldn&#8217;t tell you.  Is the enjoyment of a &#8220;game&#8221; worth a man&#8217;s life?  Maybe the answer lies somewhere in the deep, sordid archives of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vtech.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vtech<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Discussion topic of the week:<\/strong> How many child players of Hangman grew up to be murderers?<\/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>Exhibit A: Talking Whiz-Kid Program Card #43 (1987) Nothing captures the childlike zeal and enthusiasm most kids have to murder grown adults like this illustration from 1987. A young boy mercilessly withholds the &#8220;answer&#8221; from a balding, middle aged man &#8212; ruthlessly toying with his life &#8212; while the innocent adult faces imminent death at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24,26,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-humor","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","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=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}