{"id":515,"date":"2008-11-03T12:48:50","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T17:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=515"},"modified":"2008-11-03T12:55:04","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T17:55:04","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-the-mating-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/515\/retro-scan-of-the-week-the-mating-game","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> The Sega Mating Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/segasex_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/segasex_small.jpg\" alt=\"Sega 32X Ad - EGM 1995\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>(click for full advertisement)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sega created some pretty edgy advertising in the mid-1990s, so it came as no surprise when they used a risqu\u00c3\u00a9 visual metaphor to introduce their new 32X add-on for the Genesis.  Sadly, the only fruit this unholy union bore was Sega&#8217;s eventual failure in the hardware market.<\/p>\n<p><center><em><small>[ From Electronic Gaming Monthly, January 1995 ]<\/small><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion topic of the week:<\/strong> It&#8217;s a tough call: are there any decent games for the 32x?<\/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 for full advertisement) Sega created some pretty edgy advertising in the mid-1990s, so it came as no surprise when they used a risqu\u00c3\u00a9 visual metaphor to introduce their new 32X add-on for the Genesis. Sadly, the only fruit this unholy union bore was Sega&#8217;s eventual failure in the hardware market. [ From Electronic Gaming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,13,24,27,26,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-design","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-humor","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\/515","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=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}