{"id":702,"date":"2010-10-11T18:50:31","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T23:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=702"},"modified":"2011-01-31T09:26:48","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T14:26:48","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-the-first-ever-dragon-combat-simulator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/702\/retro-scan-of-the-week-the-first-ever-dragon-combat-simulator","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> &#8220;The First-Ever Dragon Combat Simulator!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/dragonstrike_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/dragonstrike_small.jpg\" alt=\"DragonStrike SSI Flier - 1990\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>&#8220;Dragons attack with talons, fangs, and deadly breath weapons.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Just yesterday, my wife&#8217;s uncle brought over boxes of his old Atari ST stuff and dumped them at my house (per my request, of course).  Among the delightful vintage goodies was a Mega ST2 and dozens of boxed Atari ST games.  I opened the box for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/game\/questron-ii\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Questron II<\/em><\/a> and was immediately confronted by this colorful 5.5&#8243; x 8.5&#8243; flier for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/game\/dragonstrike\" target=\"_blank\"><em>DragonStrike<\/em><\/a>, another game from Strategic Simulations (SSI).<\/p>\n<p>The design proudly proclaims, &#8220;The FIRST-EVER dragon combat simultor!&#8221; &#8212; as if &#8220;dragon combat simulator&#8221; was a genre gamers had been clamoring for ceaselessly for years.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never played this game, but I was always a fan of SSI&#8217;s gaming titles.  They published some of computer gaming&#8217;s highest quality software back in the late 1980s and early 1990s.<\/p>\n<p><center><em><small>[ From &#8220;New Games from SSI! Catalog Supplement,&#8221; Spring\/Summer 1990, p.1 ]<\/small><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong>  What are some of your favorite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/browse\/games\/strategic-simulations-inc\/\" target=\"_blank\">Strategic Simulations<\/a> games?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Dragons attack with talons, fangs, and deadly breath weapons.&#8221; Just yesterday, my wife&#8217;s uncle brought over boxes of his old Atari ST stuff and dumped them at my house (per my request, of course). Among the delightful vintage goodies was a Mega ST2 and dozens of boxed Atari ST games. I opened the box for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,27,26,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","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\/702","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=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}