{"id":852,"date":"2012-03-05T16:24:06","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T21:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=852"},"modified":"2012-03-05T16:32:20","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T21:32:20","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-neo-geo-pocket-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/852\/retro-scan-of-the-week-neo-geo-pocket-color","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Get Pocket Power!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/neogeo_pocket_color_1999_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/neogeo_pocket_color_1999_small.jpg\" alt=\"SNK Neo Geo Pocket Color Ad - 1999\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Why 146 simultaneous colors? Because it&#8217;s one more than 145!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I previously wrote about the Neo Geo Pocket Color in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/633\" target=\"_blank\">Retro Scan of the Week from 2010<\/a>, but I ran across this colorful 1999 ad for the console recently and couldn&#8217;t resist.  I&#8217;ve always had a soft spot for this would-be Game Boy killer that never lived up to its true potential.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From Electronic Gaming Monthly, September 1999, p.219 ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> Why do you think the Neo Geo Pocket Color failed to achieve long-term success?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why 146 simultaneous colors? Because it&#8217;s one more than 145! I previously wrote about the Neo Geo Pocket Color in a Retro Scan of the Week from 2010, but I ran across this colorful 1999 ad for the console recently and couldn&#8217;t resist. I&#8217;ve always had a soft spot for this would-be Game Boy killer [&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-852","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\/852","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=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}