{"id":659,"date":"2010-05-24T15:32:37","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T20:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=659"},"modified":"2010-05-24T15:45:24","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T20:45:24","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-werewolf-the-last-warrior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/659\/retro-scan-of-the-week-werewolf-the-last-warrior","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Werewolf: The Last Warrior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/werewolf_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/werewolf_small.jpg\" alt=\"Werewolf: The Last Warrior NES Game Ad - 1991\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>More mediocrity than my attention can hold.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I was so excited when I first saw <em>Werewolf: The Last Warrior<\/em> in my local Blockbuster, circa 1991.  I excitedly rented the game and took it home, only to have my hopes dashed against the rocks of expectation upon inserting it into my NES and playing.<\/p>\n<p>The game was terrible.  Well&#8230; to be generous, it was an intensely derivative action-platformer, \u00c3\u00a0 la <em>Ninja Gaiden<\/em> &#8212; one of hundreds on the NES platform.<\/p>\n<p>While <em>Werewolf<\/em> may not be remembered for original gameplay, it will forever be immortalized as one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/595\" target=\"_blank\"><em>VC&#038;G&#8217;s<\/em> 2009 Halloween Costume Ideas<\/a>.  And that&#8217;s the way it should be.<\/p>\n<p><center><em><small>[ From Video Games and Computer Entertainment, April 1991, rear cover ]<\/small><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong>  What&#8217;s the weirdest video game main character of all time?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More mediocrity than my attention can hold. I was so excited when I first saw Werewolf: The Last Warrior in my local Blockbuster, circa 1991. I excitedly rented the game and took it home, only to have my hopes dashed against the rocks of expectation upon inserting it into my NES and playing. The game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,27,26,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/659","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=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}