{"id":582,"date":"2009-08-17T12:07:56","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T17:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=582"},"modified":"2014-09-16T13:14:15","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T18:14:15","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-dungeons-and-demons-the-infraceptor-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/582\/retro-scan-of-the-week-dungeons-and-demons-the-infraceptor-watch","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Dungeons and Demons &#8212; The Infraceptor Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/infraceptor_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/infraceptor_small.jpg\" alt=\"Infraceptor Watch Ad - 1995\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>The time?  Half-past dagger.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Does anybody know more about this interesting looking watch?  I don&#8217;t recall seeing or hearing anything about it beyond this tiny profile in Popular Science&#8217;s &#8220;What&#8217;s New&#8221; section back in 1995.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Casio&#8217;s Infraceptor watch functions as a game machine, a phone book, an infrared message sender, and a stopwatch.  Its IR beam lets you play a &#8220;dungeons and demons&#8221; adventure against other Infraceptor users.  You prepare the phone book information &#8212; for as many as ten people &#8212; or canned questions and replies for the message-sending function on a JD-6000 Digital Diary before storing it in the watch.  Price: $100.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder how the so-called &#8220;dungeons and demons&#8221; game worked.  I&#8217;m completely guessing here, but I suspect it wasn&#8217;t very fun.  It&#8217;s still a neat concept that I would have killed for as a kid (I can imagine surreptitiously playing it at school).<\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ocn.ne.jp\/~imaco\/casio.htm\" target=\"_blank\">this neat Japanese page<\/a> with pictures of other super-nerdy watches on it.<\/p>\n<p><center><em><small>[ From Popular Science, April 1995, p.12 ]<\/small><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion topic of the week:<\/strong> Tell us about the geekiest watch you&#8217;ve ever owned.  (i.e. Calculator?  Digital address book?  Built-in camera?  Dick Tracy-style radio?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The time? Half-past dagger. Does anybody know more about this interesting looking watch? I don&#8217;t recall seeing or hearing anything about it beyond this tiny profile in Popular Science&#8217;s &#8220;What&#8217;s New&#8221; section back in 1995. Casio&#8217;s Infraceptor watch functions as a game machine, a phone book, an infrared message sender, and a stopwatch. Its IR [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,43,13,27,26,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-electronic-toys","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\/582","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=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}