{"id":553,"date":"2009-04-06T10:31:36","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T15:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=553"},"modified":"2009-04-06T11:07:25","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T16:07:25","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-alien-brigade-atari-7800","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/553\/retro-scan-of-the-week-alien-brigade-atari-7800","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Alien Brigade (Atari 7800)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/alien_brigade_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/alien_brigade_small.jpg\" alt=\"Alien Brigade Atari 7800 Ad - 1990\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>A classic case of fist-cheek syndrome.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Now here&#8217;s something you don&#8217;t see every day: a print ad for an Atari 7800 game.  Moreover, a print ad for an Atari 7800 game in 1990.  Moreover, a print ad for an <em>original<\/em> Atari 7800 game in 1990.<\/p>\n<p>An advertisement like this seems odd because Atari&#8217;s marketing budget for the underwhelming 7800 was very modest.  My guess is that the release of the Atari Lynx in the year prior injected renewed vigor into Atari&#8217;s marketing efforts.  The same vigor likely prompted Atari to publish a handful of new 7800 titles around 1990-91, of which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/game\/atari-7800\/alien-brigade\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Alien Brigade<\/em><\/a> was one.  From what I&#8217;ve read, modern Atari fans <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flipsiderunner.com\/7800\/alienbrigader.html\" target=\"_blank\">enjoy<\/a> this rare light gun game, but I&#8217;ve never played it.<\/p>\n<p><center><em><small>[ From Video Games &#038; Computer Entertainment, November 1990 ]<\/small><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion topic of the week:<\/strong> Do you think that the Atari 7800 could have better taken on Nintendo if Atari had marketed it better?  Also, feel free to share your favorite Atari 7800 games.<\/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>A classic case of fist-cheek syndrome. Now here&#8217;s something you don&#8217;t see every day: a print ad for an Atari 7800 game. Moreover, a print ad for an Atari 7800 game in 1990. Moreover, a print ad for an original Atari 7800 game in 1990. An advertisement like this seems odd because Atari&#8217;s marketing budget [&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-553","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\/553","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=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}