{"id":62,"date":"2006-02-13T07:00:23","date_gmt":"2006-02-13T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/62"},"modified":"2006-07-28T18:59:54","modified_gmt":"2006-07-28T23:59:54","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-the-next-step-in-nintendo-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/62\/retro-scan-of-the-week-the-next-step-in-nintendo-entertainment","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">Retro Scan of the Week:<\/span> &#8220;The Next Step in Nintendo Entertainment!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"caption\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/nexoft_1_large.jpg\" target=\"new\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/nexoft_1_small.jpg\" alt=\"NEXOFT Flier\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption_text\">This 8.5&#8243;x11&#8243; fold-out flier probably came with a Game Boy game, circa 1990 (My brother bought <em>Ishido<\/em> back then, which is on the flier, so that&#8217;s probably it).  <em>The Dominator<\/em> controller looks pretty mean, doesn&#8217;t it?  I saw one of those only once in person, at a local Hamfest.  I would have bought it, but it was beat up pretty badly and covered with 10 years&#8217; worth of kiddie-grunge.  <em>The Dominator<\/em> had the unique ability to turn all NES controllers into &#8220;wireless&#8221; controllers &#8212; you could plug them into the sides of the stick and the <em>Dominator&#8217;s<\/em> infra-red link with the NES (courtesy of a special IR receiver) would do the rest.  Anybody have one?  I&#8217;ll buy it from ya.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This 8.5&#8243;x11&#8243; fold-out flier probably came with a Game Boy game, circa 1990 (My brother bought Ishido back then, which is on the flier, so that&#8217;s probably it). The Dominator controller looks pretty mean, doesn&#8217;t it? I saw one of those only once in person, at a local Hamfest. I would have bought it, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,22,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-nes-famicom","category-retro-scan-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","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=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}