{"id":570,"date":"2009-06-15T15:03:03","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T20:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/570"},"modified":"2009-06-15T15:19:31","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T20:19:31","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-ikari-warriors-7800","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/570\/retro-scan-of-the-week-ikari-warriors-7800","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Ikari Warriors (Atari 7800)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/ikari_7800_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/ikari_7800_small.jpg\" alt=\"Ikari Warriors for Atari 7800 Ad - 1990\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Rambo you are not.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another rare Atari 7800 video game ad from 1990, this time for <em>Ikari Warriors<\/em>.  Previously, we&#8217;ve seen one for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/553\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Alien Brigade<\/em><\/a>.  I&#8217;ve heard that the 7800 version of <em>Ikari Warriors<\/em> is pretty good, but I&#8217;ve never played it myself (well, maybe once on an emulator).  Can anyone out there tell us what it&#8217;s like?<\/p>\n<p><em>Trivia Alert:<\/em> According to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ikari_Warriors\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a>, <em>Ikari Warriors&#8217;<\/em> theme and name were inspired by the film <em>Rambo: First Blood Part II<\/em>.  The Japanese title of that movie contained the word &#8220;ikari,&#8221; which means &#8220;anger&#8221; in Japanese.<\/p>\n<p><center><em><small>[ From Video Games and Computer Entertainment, November 1990 ]<\/small><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion topic of the week:<\/strong> What&#8217;s your pick for the best movie in the Rambo series: <em>First Blood<\/em>, <em>Rambo: First Blood Part II<\/em>, <em>Rambo III<\/em>, or <em>Rambo<\/em> (the 2008 movie)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rambo you are not. Here&#8217;s another rare Atari 7800 video game ad from 1990, this time for Ikari Warriors. Previously, we&#8217;ve seen one for Alien Brigade. I&#8217;ve heard that the 7800 version of Ikari Warriors is pretty good, but I&#8217;ve never played it myself (well, maybe once on an emulator). Can anyone out there tell [&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-570","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\/570","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=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}