{"id":461,"date":"2008-05-12T11:19:04","date_gmt":"2008-05-12T16:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=461"},"modified":"2008-05-12T12:13:41","modified_gmt":"2008-05-12T17:13:41","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-censored-by-electronic-games-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/461\/retro-scan-of-the-week-censored-by-electronic-games-magazine","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Censored by Electronic Games Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/censored_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/censored_small.jpg\" alt=\"Video Maniac Poster Girl - Censored by Electronic Games Magazine\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Click above to see the full ad.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Close your eyes!  The above picture is too hot for young minds to take.  Or so thought <em>Electronic Games<\/em> in 1983 when they elected to censor the poster-girl&#8217;s bikini-clad crotch with an inelegant black circle.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/censor_circle_small.png\" alt=\"Censored by Electronic Games Magazine\" class=\"alignright\" \/>When I first saw this ad for &#8220;video game sports accessories,&#8221; I thought the censorship have been a joke.  But since it was published a video game magazine in 1983 &#8212; hence, &#8220;for kids&#8221; &#8212; it makes more sense.  She&#8217;s clutching that phallic-looking broken joystick awfully close to the operative parts of her reproductive anatomy, and I guess that made the magazine nervous.  God forbid she conceive a child with an arcade machine.<\/p>\n<p>But what exactly has been gained by covering her crotch?  It makes one wonder what hideous, kinky, suggestive imagery might be lurking under there to warrant such a circle.  And therein lies the problem with <a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/censor_joke_small.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">arbitrary censorship<\/a> &#8212; it <a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/censored_xmas.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">draws<\/a> undue <a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/censored_man.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">attention<\/a> to what <a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/censored_mario.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">otherwise<\/a> might have been a mundane affair.<\/p>\n<p><center><em><small>[ From Electronic Games, December 1983 ]<\/small><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion topic of the week:<\/strong> Imagine you&#8217;re ten years old in 1983.  What would you think of the image above?<\/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>Click above to see the full ad. Close your eyes! The above picture is too hot for young minds to take. Or so thought Electronic Games in 1983 when they elected to censor the poster-girl&#8217;s bikini-clad crotch with an inelegant black circle. When I first saw this ad for &#8220;video game sports accessories,&#8221; I thought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,24,26,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-humor","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-retrogaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","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=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}