{"id":705,"date":"2010-10-18T11:07:11","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T16:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=705"},"modified":"2010-10-18T11:15:35","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T16:15:35","slug":"nes-oddities-25th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/705\/nes-oddities-25th-anniversary","title":{"rendered":"NES Oddities (25th Anniversary)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2010\/10\/18\/nes\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/technologizer\/nes_oddities_small.jpg\" alt=\"Nintendo Entertainment System Oddities at Technologizer\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve checked out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/704\" target=\"_blank\">this week&#8217;s Retro Scan<\/a> and maybe even my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/703\" target=\"_blank\">NES teardown<\/a>, you already know that Nintendo released the NES in the United States 25 years ago today (that would be 1985 &#8212; I&#8217;ll spare you the math).<\/p>\n<p>In honor of the anniversary, I gathered up <a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2010\/10\/18\/nes\/\" target=\"_blank\">13 examples of NES-related weirdness<\/a> and conveniently packaged them in a slideshow format for Technologizer.  The result is &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2010\/10\/18\/nes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nintendo Entertainment System Oddities<\/a>,&#8221; a gallery in the same vein as my <a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2010\/09\/12\/super-mario\/\" target=\"_blank\">Super Mario Oddities<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2009\/04\/13\/game-boy-oddities\/\" target=\"_blank\">Game Boy Oddities<\/a> pieces for Technologizer.  I hope you enjoy it.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe all this NES lovin&#8217; will inspire you to dust off your old console and revisit some NES classics.  It certainly did me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve checked out this week&#8217;s Retro Scan and maybe even my NES teardown, you already know that Nintendo released the NES in the United States 25 years ago today (that would be 1985 &#8212; I&#8217;ll spare you the math). In honor of the anniversary, I gathered up 13 examples of NES-related weirdness and conveniently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,22,21,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-nes-famicom","category-news-current-events","category-retrogaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","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=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}