{"id":644,"date":"2010-04-26T10:08:25","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T15:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=644"},"modified":"2010-04-26T10:38:29","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T15:38:29","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-the-solstice-hunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/644\/retro-scan-of-the-week-the-solstice-hunk","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Magical Nipples of Solstice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/solstice_man_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/solstice_man_small.jpg\" alt=\"Solstice NES Ad - 1991\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Our hero stands alone in a dungeon, screaming profanities at the ceiling.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>You might remember our intrepid hero, a loincloth-bedecked body builder, from last year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/595\" target=\"_blank\"><em>VC&#038;G<\/em> Halloween Costume Ideas<\/a>.  This beefcakey portrayal of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/game\/nes\/solstice-the-quest-for-the-staff-of-demnos\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Solstice&#8217;s<\/em><\/a> main character is as amusing now as it was then, so I figured it deserved its own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/category\/regular_features\/retro-scan-of-the-week\/\" target=\"_blank\">RSOTW<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The character&#8217;s name is actually Shadax, if you&#8217;re interested.  If you&#8217;re not, I don&#8217;t blame you.  He&#8217;s not normally like this, I swear.  Shadax wears a modest, body-enveloping robe throughout the entire game.  He only gets naked when he&#8217;s had too much of the &#8216;ole Green Fairy.<\/p>\n<p><center><em><small>[ From Video Games and Computer Entertainment, April 1991, p.75 ]<\/small><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> What&#8217;s your favorite NES puzzle game?  For bonus points: what&#8217;s the most obscure NES puzzle game you can name?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our hero stands alone in a dungeon, screaming profanities at the ceiling. You might remember our intrepid hero, a loincloth-bedecked body builder, from last year&#8217;s VC&#038;G Halloween Costume Ideas. This beefcakey portrayal of Solstice&#8217;s main character is as amusing now as it was then, so I figured it deserved its own RSOTW. The character&#8217;s name [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,24,22,27,26,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-humor","category-nes-famicom","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\/644","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=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}