{"id":537,"date":"2009-01-19T15:04:32","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T20:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=537"},"modified":"2017-02-01T14:04:38","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T19:04:38","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-atari-basketball-1982-catalog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/537\/retro-scan-of-the-week-atari-basketball-1982-catalog","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Atari Basketball Catalog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/atari_bb_cat_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/atari_bb_cat_small.jpg\" alt=\"Atari Catalog p 21 - 1982\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Click above to see the full page scan<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a scan of <em>Basketball&#8217;s<\/em> appearance in a 1982 Atari product catalog for their <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atari_800\" target=\"_blank\">8-bit home computer line<\/a>.  <em>Basketball<\/em>, programmed by Alan Miller, is notable for possibly introducing the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/536\" target=\"_blank\"> first obviously black video game character<\/a>.  And hey, it&#8217;s also the first game I remember playing.<\/p>\n<p><center><em><small>[ From Discover the World of Atari Home Computers, 1982 ]<\/small><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion topic of the week:<\/strong> What is the significance, if any, of the first black video game character appearing in a basketball game, rather than a game based on another subject matter?<\/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 page scan Here&#8217;s a scan of Basketball&#8217;s appearance in a 1982 Atari product catalog for their 8-bit home computer line. Basketball, programmed by Alan Miller, is notable for possibly introducing the first obviously black video game character. And hey, it&#8217;s also the first game I remember playing. [ From [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,13,27,26,9],"tags":[65,170,168,473,370,60],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-retrogaming","tag-65","tag-atari","tag-atari-800","tag-basketball","tag-black-history","tag-retro-scan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","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=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}