{"id":486,"date":"2008-08-04T11:08:47","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T16:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=486"},"modified":"2008-08-04T11:24:43","modified_gmt":"2008-08-04T16:24:43","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-better-than-being-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/486\/retro-scan-of-the-week-better-than-being-god","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Better Than Being God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/simearth_turbo_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/simearth_turbo_small.jpg\" alt=\"SimEarth God Ad - TurboDuo - 1993\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Michelangelo is turning in his grave (eager to play SimEarth, of course).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>SimEarth<\/em>: &#8220;It&#8217;s kinda like being God, except the graphics are better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If I recall <em>SimEarth<\/em> in general, it was kind of a dud: after excitedly buying it for the PC upon its release, my brother returned it within a few days, disappointed.  I personally have never played it much, nor have I tried the TurboDuo version.  But if it has <em>better graphics than being God<\/em>, then maybe I should give it a second chance.<\/p>\n<p><center><em><small>[ From Electronic Gaming Monthly, June 1993 ]<\/small><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion topic of the week:<\/strong> What role, if any, should religion have in video games?<\/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>Michelangelo is turning in his grave (eager to play SimEarth, of course). SimEarth: &#8220;It&#8217;s kinda like being God, except the graphics are better.&#8221; If I recall SimEarth in general, it was kind of a dud: after excitedly buying it for the PC upon its release, my brother returned it within a few days, disappointed. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,13,24,26,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","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\/486","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=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}