{"id":497,"date":"2008-09-08T12:22:43","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T17:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=497"},"modified":"2008-09-08T12:40:50","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T17:40:50","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-boil-over-with-mr-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/497\/retro-scan-of-the-week-boil-over-with-mr-cool","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Boil Over with Mr. Cool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/mrcool_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/mrcool_small.jpg\" alt=\"Mr. Cool - Electronic Games 1983\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>&#8220;The ice cube cometh.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Yep, <em>Mr. Cool<\/em> is little more than <em>Q*bert<\/em> on ice &#8212; but this one requires a touch of SuperCool to win.  Somehow, Mr. Cool himself looks like he was plucked from an episode of <em>Aqua Teen Hunger Force<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I remember playing this for the Atari 800 and not being too impressed.  But oh well; clones will be clones.  (Psst &#8212; remember <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/374\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Donkey King<\/em><\/a>?)<\/p>\n<p><center><em><small>[ From Electronic Games, December 1983 ]<\/small><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion topic of the week:<\/strong> Share your memories of video game clones.  Any favorites?  Any ridiculous examples?<\/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>&#8220;The ice cube cometh.&#8221; Yep, Mr. Cool is little more than Q*bert on ice &#8212; but this one requires a touch of SuperCool to win. Somehow, Mr. Cool himself looks like he was plucked from an episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force. I remember playing this for the Atari 800 and not being too impressed. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,17,13,24,26,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-video-game-design","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\/497","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=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}