{"id":449,"date":"2008-04-10T12:38:12","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T17:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/449"},"modified":"2008-11-07T11:10:41","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T16:10:41","slug":"own-a-glowing-nes-cartridge-glider-special-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/449\/own-a-glowing-nes-cartridge-glider-special-edition","title":{"rendered":"Own a Glowing NES Cartridge: <em>Glider<\/em> Special Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/Glider-brand-new-Special-Edition-NES-homebrew-game_W0QQitemZ220221887738QQihZ012QQcategoryZ4315QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/glider\/glider_glow_small.jpg\" alt=\"RetroZone Glider NES Special Edition Glowing\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/351\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Parker<\/a> of RetroZone is at it again, reinventing the NES homebrew scene with innovative new products.  This time he&#8217;s selling a <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/Glider-brand-new-Special-Edition-NES-homebrew-game_W0QQitemZ220221887738QQihZ012QQcategoryZ4315QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem\" target=\"_blank\">special edition <em>Glider<\/em> NES game cartridge<\/a> on eBay that, aside from being a previously unreleased title, will <strong>glow<\/strong> while it&#8217;s being played.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>And heck, the box glows as well:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/Glider-brand-new-Special-Edition-NES-homebrew-game_W0QQitemZ220221887738QQihZ012QQcategoryZ4315QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/glider\/glider_glow2_small.jpg\" alt=\"RetroZone Glider NES Special Edition Glowing\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Only <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/Glider-brand-new-Special-Edition-NES-homebrew-game_W0QQitemZ220221887738QQihZ012QQcategoryZ4315QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem\" target=\"_blank\">13 hours of the auction left<\/a>, and it&#8217;s already at $105 (US).  So get it while it&#8217;s hot.  Of course, if you don&#8217;t want to spring for the special edition, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.retrousb.com\/index.php?productID=156\" target=\"_blank\">regular edition<\/a> goes for $42 on the RetroZone site, although it&#8217;s temporarily out of stock.<\/p>\n<p><em>Glider<\/em> appears to be a NES adaptation of the popular Macintosh title of the same name.  Its graphics are even black and white, similar to the Mac (although this version benefits from more than 2 colors &#8212; white or black).<\/p>\n<p>And now, I leave you with an image of the <em>Glider<\/em> SE cartridge while it&#8217;s not emitting light.  Happy bidding.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/glider\/glider_se_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/glider\/glider_se_small.jpg\" alt=\"RetroZone Glider NES Special Edition\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Parker of RetroZone is at it again, reinventing the NES homebrew scene with innovative new products. This time he&#8217;s selling a special edition Glider NES game cartridge on eBay that, aside from being a previously unreleased title, will glow while it&#8217;s being played.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,22,21,19,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-collecting","category-nes-famicom","category-news-current-events","category-new-retro-reproductions","category-retrogaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","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=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}