{"id":695,"date":"2010-09-13T19:19:48","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T00:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=695"},"modified":"2010-09-13T19:39:01","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T00:39:01","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-radio-shack-slot-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/695\/retro-scan-of-the-week-radio-shack-slot-machine","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Radio Shack Slot Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/radioshack_slotmachine_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/radioshack_slotmachine_small.jpg\" alt=\"Radio Shack LCD Mini Slot Machine Electronic Game Box (60-2464A) - 1994\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>&#8220;Play slots anywhere you go without the expense!&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I believe I bought this Radio Shack <em>LCD Mini Slot Machine<\/em> unit at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/204\" target=\"_blank\">hamfest<\/a> back in the 1990s.  The game broke not too long afterward, but I apparently kept the box and the manual.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward 15 years later.  I recently discovered the box in a pile of my old stuff at my parents&#8217; house.  After flattening the box, I scanned the whole thing so you can create your own tiny three dimensional reproductions of it at home (if you&#8217;re into that Radio Shack diehard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.papercraftmuseum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">papercraft<\/a> thing).  Heck, fill a whole room with them and dive in!<\/p>\n<p><center><em><small>[ Radio Shack LCD Mini Slot Machine box, 1994 ]<\/small><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong>  Did you (or do you) ever own any Radio Shack electronic games?  Which ones?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Play slots anywhere you go without the expense!&#8221; I believe I bought this Radio Shack LCD Mini Slot Machine unit at a hamfest back in the 1990s. The game broke not too long afterward, but I apparently kept the box and the manual. Fast forward 15 years later. I recently discovered the box in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,13,27,26,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronic-toys","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\/695","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=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}