{"id":805,"date":"2011-09-19T13:24:42","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T18:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=805"},"modified":"2011-09-19T13:44:44","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T18:44:44","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-tecmo-nes-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/805\/retro-scan-of-the-week-tecmo-nes-games","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Tecmo Leads The Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/tecmo_nes_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/tecmo_nes_small.jpg\" alt=\"Tecmo NES Games Advertisement - Tecmo Bowl - Tecmo Baseball - Dragon Ninja - Mighty Bomb Jack - Rygar - Solomon's Key - Star Force - 1988\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Tecmo Games for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Now that it&#8217;s football season, <em>Tecmo Bowl<\/em> fans out there may appreciate this 1988 group advertisement for Tecmo brand NES games.  Tecmo published quite a few high quality titles for Nintendo&#8217;s 8-bit console, some of which are seen here.  Three of my personal favorite Tecmo titles are <em>Rygar<\/em>, <em>Mighty Bomb Jack<\/em>, and <em>Ninja Gaiden II<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I was always impressed with Tecmo&#8217;s box art illustrations and logo designs as a kid &#8212; they really jumped out at me when browsing NES games at a local rental store.  You can see examples of Tecmo&#8217;s eye-catching cover designs near the bottom of the ad.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting to note the presence of &#8220;Dragon Ninja (Tentative Title)&#8221; in this ad.  From what I can tell, it appears to be an early version of <em>Ninja Gaiden<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From Nintendo Fun Club News, April\/May 1988, p.21 ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> What are your favorite Tecmo NES games?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tecmo Games for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) Now that it&#8217;s football season, Tecmo Bowl fans out there may appreciate this 1988 group advertisement for Tecmo brand NES games. Tecmo published quite a few high quality titles for Nintendo&#8217;s 8-bit console, some of which are seen here. Three of my personal favorite Tecmo titles are [&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-805","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\/805","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=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}