{"id":843,"date":"2012-02-06T16:18:30","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T21:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=843"},"modified":"2012-02-06T16:26:27","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T21:26:27","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-f-15-strike-eagle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/843\/retro-scan-of-the-week-f-15-strike-eagle","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> F-15 Strike Eagle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/f15_strike_eagle_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/f15_strike_eagle_small.jpg\" alt=\"MicroProse F-15 Strike Eagle for Atari ST Ad - 1987\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>When I grow up, I&#8217;d like to be a VMR (Valued MicroProse Retailer).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s Retro Scan is another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/feature\/1523\/the_history_of_civilization.php?page=5\" target=\"_blank\">Sid Meier<\/a> MicroProse classic (see my scan of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/828\" target=\"_blank\">Pirates!<\/a> from last year) and one of history&#8217;s most famous combat flight simulator games.  I remember trying <em>F-15 Strike Eagle<\/em> briefly years ago, but I soon gave up on it because I have never been much into flight simulators.  What did you guys think about it?<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From STart Atari ST Buyer&#8217;s Guide, Special Issue No. 1, 1987, p.2 ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> What&#8217;s your favorite combat flight simulator game of all time?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I grow up, I&#8217;d like to be a VMR (Valued MicroProse Retailer). This week&#8217;s Retro Scan is another Sid Meier MicroProse classic (see my scan of Pirates! from last year) and one of history&#8217;s most famous combat flight simulator games. I remember trying F-15 Strike Eagle briefly years ago, but I soon gave up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,13,27,26,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","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\/843","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=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}