{"id":781,"date":"2011-06-27T11:19:23","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T16:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=781"},"modified":"2011-06-27T11:32:42","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T16:32:42","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-gear-up-for-metal-gear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/781\/retro-scan-of-the-week-gear-up-for-metal-gear","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Gear Up for Metal Gear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/metal_gear_nes_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/metal_gear_nes_small.jpg\" alt=\"Metal Gear for NES Ad - 1988\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Don&#8217;t forget to pack your high-jump goggles and night vision boots.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>As a young NES fan, I absolutely loved this ad.  I remember studying it from top to bottom many times, excited by large amount of fancy equipment lavishly depicted in this ad for Ultra&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Metal_Gear\" target=\"_blank\">Metal Gear<\/a><\/em> on the NES.  I was never a huge fan of playing <em>Metal Gear<\/em> myself  (I found it too hard as a kid), but I loved to watch my brother play through this depthy stealth-action title.<\/p>\n<p>Fans and critics considered the first NES <em>Metal Gear <\/em> a classic in its own time, so perhaps I should dust off my cartridge and give it another shot.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From Nintendo Fun Club News, April\/May 1988, p.29 ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> What&#8217;s your favorite title in the <em>Metal Gear<\/em> series?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t forget to pack your high-jump goggles and night vision boots. As a young NES fan, I absolutely loved this ad. I remember studying it from top to bottom many times, excited by large amount of fancy equipment lavishly depicted in this ad for Ultra&#8217;s Metal Gear on the NES. I was never a huge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,22,27,26,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-nes-famicom","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\/781","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=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}