{"id":683,"date":"2010-08-16T09:54:48","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T14:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=683"},"modified":"2010-08-17T10:26:29","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T15:26:29","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-quake-meat-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/683\/retro-scan-of-the-week-quake-meat-market","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Quake II Meat Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/quake2_meat_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/quake2_meat_small.jpg\" alt=\"Quake II Meat Market Ad Playstation N64 - 1999\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>&#8220;Hand-cranked and chock full of juicy new tidbits.<br \/>All stuffed into authentic id Software casing.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Quake II<\/em> will be 13 years old this December &#8212; has it been that long already?  Seen here is a 1999 advertisement from EGM promoting the PlayStation and Nintendo 64 ports of the classic PC shooter.  The designers of the ad chose a clever theme that parodies a grocery store circular (commonly inserted into newspapers here in the US), complete with a fake coupon and flashy pricing.  Very clever, and very effective.<\/p>\n<p><center><em><small>[ From Electronic Gaming Monthly, September 1999, p.73 ]<\/small><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong>  Let&#8217;s talk <em>Quake<\/em>.  Best game console version of <em>Quake<\/em>?  How about <em>Quake II<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Hand-cranked and chock full of juicy new tidbits.All stuffed into authentic id Software casing.&#8221; Quake II will be 13 years old this December &#8212; has it been that long already? Seen here is a 1999 advertisement from EGM promoting the PlayStation and Nintendo 64 ports of the classic PC shooter. The designers of the ad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27,26,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/683","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=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}