{"id":619,"date":"2009-12-21T07:00:28","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T12:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=619"},"modified":"2009-12-21T08:50:12","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T13:50:12","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-kickle-cubicle-blows-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/619\/retro-scan-of-the-week-kickle-cubicle-blows-in","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Kickle Cubicle Blows In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/kickle_cubicle_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/kickle_cubicle_small.jpg\" alt=\"Kickle Cubicle NES Ad - 1990\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>&#8220;No more Mr. Ice Guy.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It looks like Kickle Cubicle visited much of the Eastern U.S. coast over the weekend with a nasty snowstorm; hope you guys are digging out all right.  Here in NC, some of us lucked out with a light dusting and a lot of rain.<\/p>\n<p><em>Kickle Cubicle<\/em> itself is a fun, <em>Lolo<\/em>-esque NES puzzler with a silly name that hints at both kicking and modular office partitions (thankfully, cubicles do not actually appear in the game).  If you run across it, I highly recommend picking it up.<\/p>\n<p>Merry Christmas from <em>VC&#038;G<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p><center><em><small>[ From Video Games and Computer Entertainment, December 1990 ]<\/small><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Santa time once again. If you could magically (and freely) have any one item for your classic computer or video game collection, what would it be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;No more Mr. Ice Guy.&#8221; It looks like Kickle Cubicle visited much of the Eastern U.S. coast over the weekend with a nasty snowstorm; hope you guys are digging out all right. Here in NC, some of us lucked out with a light dusting and a lot of rain. Kickle Cubicle itself is a fun, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,22,21,27,26,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-nes-famicom","category-news-current-events","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\/619","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=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}