{"id":544,"date":"2009-02-23T12:05:13","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T17:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=544"},"modified":"2009-03-02T09:06:30","modified_gmt":"2009-03-02T14:06:30","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-double-dungeons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/544\/retro-scan-of-the-week-double-dungeons","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Double Dungeons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/double_dungeons_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/double_dungeons_small.jpg\" alt=\"Double Dungeons - TurboGrafx-16 Cover Art\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Now we know where those sword-shaped cocktail spears came from.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I seem to recall a 1UP.com feature a few years back that named this colorful airbrush illustration from <em>Double Dungeons<\/em> (TurboGrafx-16, 1990) as some of the worst cover art of all time.  I&#8217;d have to disagree.  While kinda cheesy by modern standards, I found it captivating when I was a kid.  It made me want to play the game, which is probably the goal, right?<\/p>\n<p><center><em><small>[ From Double Dungeons Instruction Booklet, 1990 ]<\/small><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion topic of the week:<\/strong> Share your nominations for the best and worst video game cover art of all time.<\/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>Now we know where those sword-shaped cocktail spears came from. I seem to recall a 1UP.com feature a few years back that named this colorful airbrush illustration from Double Dungeons (TurboGrafx-16, 1990) as some of the worst cover art of all time. I&#8217;d have to disagree. While kinda cheesy by modern standards, I found it [&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-544","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\/544","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=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}