{"id":859,"date":"2012-04-09T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T11:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=859"},"modified":"2012-04-04T14:22:27","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T19:22:27","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-european-rush-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/859\/retro-scan-of-the-week-european-rush-hour","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Grand Prix Hair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/grand_prix_circuit_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/grand_prix_circuit_small.jpg\" alt=\"Accolade Grand Prix Circuit Ad - 1988\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>This makes me want to watch Top Gun for some reason.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This magazine ad for Accolade&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/game\/grand-prix-circuit\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Grand Prix Circuit<\/em><\/a> (1988) reminds us of a time when folks were less kind to their hair &#8212; and when sunglasses engulfed half of your face.<\/p>\n<p>It also reminds me of how wonderful it was when racing games switched to polygon-based graphics.  If any video game genre benefited most from the shift from sprites to 3D polygons, it was racing.  I mourned the loss of 2D pixel art in just about every game style except racing games, where the freedom of movement afforded by 3D environments heralded a new dawn for the genre.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From Compute&#8217;s Gazette for Commodore Users, December 1988, p.2 ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> What did your hair look like in the 1980s?  Bonus points if you can link to a 1980s photo of yourself!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This makes me want to watch Top Gun for some reason. This magazine ad for Accolade&#8217;s Grand Prix Circuit (1988) reminds us of a time when folks were less kind to their hair &#8212; and when sunglasses engulfed half of your face. It also reminds me of how wonderful it was when racing games switched [&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-859","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\/859","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=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}