{"id":720,"date":"2010-12-06T21:33:20","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T02:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=720"},"modified":"2010-12-06T21:49:07","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T02:49:07","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-duke-nukem-game-boy-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/720\/retro-scan-of-the-week-duke-nukem-game-boy-color","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Duke Nukem Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/dukenukem_gameboy_color_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/dukenukem_gameboy_color_small.jpg\" alt=\"Duke Nukem for Game Boy Color Ad - 1999\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>&#8220;Your Game Boy is about to become a man.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;ve been a fan of Duke Nukem since his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/game\/duke-nukem\" target=\"_blank\">initial shareware debut<\/a> in 1991, I&#8217;ve never played this 2D platformer for the Game Boy Color.  It arrived relatively fresh on the heels of the mega-success that was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/game\/duke-nukem-3d\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Duke Nukem 3D<\/em><\/a> in 1996, along with a handful of other spin-off titles for various game consoles.<\/p>\n<p>The true sequel to <em>Duke Nukem 3D<\/em>, <em>Duke Nukem Forever<\/em>, is supposedly coming soon (after 14 years in development hell), and I look forward to playing that when it arrives.<\/p>\n<p>By the way &#8212; if you like Duke Nukem, you may enjoy reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/583\" target=\"_blank\">this interview<\/a> of 3D Realms founder and president Scott Miller that I did last year.<\/p>\n<p><center><em><small>[ From Electronic Gaming Monthly, September 1999, p.37 ]<\/small><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong>  Which is the better game: <em>Doom<\/em>, <em>Duke Nukem 3D<\/em>, or <em>Quake<\/em>?  (Not just technologically speaking, but based on the overall experience.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Your Game Boy is about to become a man.&#8221; While I&#8217;ve been a fan of Duke Nukem since his initial shareware debut in 1991, I&#8217;ve never played this 2D platformer for the Game Boy Color. It arrived relatively fresh on the heels of the mega-success that was Duke Nukem 3D in 1996, along with 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":[13,27,26,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-720","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\/720","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=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}