{"id":738,"date":"2011-01-31T13:22:05","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T18:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=738"},"modified":"2011-02-07T10:40:23","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T15:40:23","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-ominous-portents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/738\/retro-scan-of-the-week-ominous-portents","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Ominous Zelda Portents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/zelda_majoras_mask_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/zelda_majoras_mask_small.jpg\" alt=\"The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask Magazine Ad Advertisement - 2000\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Weight of moon &gt; weight of world? Termina must be a small place.<br \/>(click image above to see full ad)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Despite what you see above, the game featured in this double page advertisement is not set in New York City.  It&#8217;s set in Termina, a weird place where kids wear lots of masks to get things done.  And like <em>Groundhog Day<\/em>, time keeps looping until you do everything <em>just so<\/em>.  The perpetual d\u00c3\u00a9j\u00c3\u00a0 vu can be frustrating &#8212; nay, maddening.  But it may also be genius, and a small subset of loyal <em>Zelda<\/em> fans call <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Majora%27s_Mask\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Legend of Zelda: Majora&#8217;s Mask<\/em><\/a> one of the best titles in the series.<\/p>\n<p>It also turned ten years old last November.  Happy birthday!<\/p>\n<p>P.S. This scan marks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/737\" target=\"_blank\">five years of Retro Scan of the Week<\/a>.  Read more about it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/737\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><em><small>[ From Electronic Gaming Monthly, November 2000, p.8-9 ]<\/small><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> How do you feel <em>Majora&#8217;s Mask<\/em> ranks in the pantheon of <em>Zelda<\/em> games?  Near the top?  Near the bottom?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weight of moon &gt; weight of world? Termina must be a small place.(click image above to see full ad) Despite what you see above, the game featured in this double page advertisement is not set in New York City. It&#8217;s set in Termina, a weird place where kids wear lots of masks to get things [&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-738","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\/738","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=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}