{"id":468,"date":"2008-06-09T11:27:17","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T16:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=468"},"modified":"2008-06-10T09:33:21","modified_gmt":"2008-06-10T14:33:21","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-hand-to-hand-combat-irem-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/468\/retro-scan-of-the-week-hand-to-hand-combat-irem-style","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Hand-to-Handheld Combat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/irem_gb_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/irem_gb_small.jpg\" alt=\"Irem Game Boy Ad - R-Type - Kung-Fu Master - 1991\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Of Aliens and Men<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This richly illustrated advertisement for Irem&#8217;s <em>R-Type<\/em> and <em>Kung-Fu Master<\/em> on the Game Boy made me bristle with excitement as a kid.  Unfortunately, most Game Boy games (when played on the blurry, slow-response, low-contrast, pale green LCD display of the original GB unit) didn&#8217;t live up to the promise of their vivid, colorful ads.  Sure, I tried my hand at many action games on Nintendo&#8217;s famous handheld, but the lackluster experience made me mostly stick with <em>Tetris<\/em> until the vastly-improved screens of the Game Boy Pocket and Color came along.<\/p>\n<p><center><em><small>[ From Handheld Video Games, Spring 1991 ]<\/small><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion topic of the week:<\/strong> What was your first portable electronic\/video game experience?  Describe it for us.<\/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>Of Aliens and Men This richly illustrated advertisement for Irem&#8217;s R-Type and Kung-Fu Master on the Game Boy made me bristle with excitement as a kid. Unfortunately, most Game Boy games (when played on the blurry, slow-response, low-contrast, pale green LCD display of the original GB unit) didn&#8217;t live up to the promise of their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27,26,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-retrogaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","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=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}