{"id":824,"date":"2011-12-12T13:01:48","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T18:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=824"},"modified":"2011-12-12T13:08:10","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T18:08:10","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-merry-christmas-from-nintendo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/824\/retro-scan-of-the-week-merry-christmas-from-nintendo","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Merry Christmas From Nintendo, 1988"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/nintendo_ornament_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/nintendo_ornament_small.jpg\" alt=\"Nintendo Merry Christmas Ornament NES Nintendo Entertainment System Back Cover - 1988\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>I see great things in your future.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I recently scanned this lovely Nintendo-sponsored Christmas greeting off the back of a 1988 issue of Nintendo Power.  You can see the complete magazine back in the full-sized version of the scan (click the image above to see it).  In that larger scan, names and addresses have been changed to protect the innocent.<\/p>\n<p>Kinda gives you that warm and fuzzy feeling, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From Nintendo Power, November-December 1988, back cover ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> Did you ever receive a NES (or even a NES game) for Christmas?  Tell us about your memories of the occasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see great things in your future. I recently scanned this lovely Nintendo-sponsored Christmas greeting off the back of a 1988 issue of Nintendo Power. You can see the complete magazine back in the full-sized version of the scan (click the image above to see it). In that larger scan, names and addresses have been [&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-824","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\/824","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=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}