{"id":548,"date":"2009-03-09T10:26:37","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T15:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=548"},"modified":"2009-03-09T10:55:24","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T15:55:24","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-rub-the-game-genie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/548\/retro-scan-of-the-week-rub-the-game-genie","title":{"rendered":"[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Rub the Game Genie"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Game<\/a>Your wish is my command.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

If my previous<\/a> posts<\/a> on the Game Genie are any indication (wow, they’re from 2005 — that’s vintage), then I’m a huge fan of the game-manipulating device — assuming, of course, that my 2005 self wasn’t lying just to throw off the accuracy of a future Retro Scan post.<\/p>\n

But heck; I shouldn’t have to read my old blog posts to know that. In the early 1990s, I spent untold numbers of hours developing my own Game Genie codes for games like Super Mario Bros.<\/em><\/a> and Super Mario Bros. 3<\/em><\/a> on the NES, and also for Super Mario Land<\/em> for the Game Boy (I need to make a homebrew gallery about that). I loved the Game Boy Game Genie so much that I took a hacksaw to its extraneous plastic parts so it would fit on the Super Game Boy. It was a weird kind of love, but it worked.<\/p>\n

From there, I moved on to the Super NES Game Genie (I don’t recall developing my own codes for that), and I eventually bought a used Game Genie for the Sega Genesis. The only one I never acquired was the Sega Game Gear version. But I didn’t have a Game Gear back then, so that would have just been silly.<\/p>\n

[ From Electronic Gaming Monthly, November 1993 ]<\/small><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

Discussion topic of the week:<\/strong> The Game Genie: reality-bending peripheral or wussy crutch for bad players?<\/p>\n

If you use this image on your site, please support “Retro Scan of the Week” by giving us obvious credit for the original scan and entry. Thanks.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Your wish is my command. If my previous posts on the Game Genie are any indication (wow, they’re from 2005 — that’s vintage), then I’m a huge fan of the game-manipulating device — assuming, of course, that my 2005 self wasn’t lying just to throw off the accuracy of a future Retro Scan post. But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,24,27,26,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/548","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=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}