{"id":86,"date":"2006-03-09T13:32:24","date_gmt":"2006-03-09T18:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/86"},"modified":"2007-12-22T14:37:09","modified_gmt":"2007-12-22T19:37:09","slug":"vcg-crossover-article-on-gamesetwatch-premiers-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/86\/vcg-crossover-article-on-gamesetwatch-premiers-today","title":{"rendered":"RedWolf&#8217;s Classic Video Game Ads Column on GameSetWatch Premiers Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='\/wp-content\/gsw_ads_1_small.jpg' alt='Ad from GameSetWatch' class=\"alignright\"\/>Starting today, I&#8217;ll be doing a weekly column called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesetwatch.com\/2006\/03\/game_ads_agogo_dumb_ads_of_the.php\" target=\"new\">Game Ads A-Go-Go<\/a>&#8221; (the title was the GSW editor&#8217;s idea) over on the blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesetwatch.com\" target=\"new\">GameSetWatch<\/a> that showcases good, bad, strange, funny, and interesting classic video game-related advertisements.  My first column is on &#8220;Dumb Ads of the 90s&#8221; and is up now.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesetwatch.com\/2006\/03\/game_ads_agogo_dumb_ads_of_the.php\" target=\"new\">Check it out!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most of the ads featured in the column will be scanned from my massive early 1990s game magazine collection that I recently unearthed from deep-earth storage (my parents&#8217; basement).  The column itself is a partnership between GSW and <em>VC&#038;G<\/em>, actually more of an extension of <em>VC&#038;G<\/em>-style content exclusively on GSW. Why?  I guess it&#8217;s because we love each other so much (read: &#8220;I&#8217;ve been bribed with a lifetime supply of chili hot dogs&#8221;).  But never you mind, and don&#8217;t you worry &#8212; the fresh content from <em>VC&#038;G<\/em> will continue to flow just as readily as before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting today, I&#8217;ll be doing a weekly column called &#8220;Game Ads A-Go-Go&#8221; (the title was the GSW editor&#8217;s idea) over on the blog GameSetWatch that showcases good, bad, strange, funny, and interesting classic video game-related advertisements. My first column is on &#8220;Dumb Ads of the 90s&#8221; and is up now. Check it out! Most of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,21,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-news-current-events","category-vcg-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","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=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}