{"id":873,"date":"2012-06-18T13:30:34","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T18:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=873"},"modified":"2012-06-25T12:32:05","modified_gmt":"2012-06-25T17:32:05","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-sex-and-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/873\/retro-scan-of-the-week-sex-and-violence","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Sex and Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/deathtrap_dungeon_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/deathtrap_dungeon_small.jpg\" alt=\"Deathtrap Dungeon Playstation PC CD-ROM ad -  1998\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>I think they have it backwards.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Amid the recent media hullabaloo that modern video games are <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5917623\/awful-things-happen-when-you-try-to-make-a-video-about-video-game-stereotypes\" target=\"_blank\">sexist<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5918787\/all-that-ultraviolence-bothers-the-people-in-charge-of-video-games-too\" target=\"_blank\">overly fixated on violence<\/a>, I give you this ad for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/game\/ian-livingstones-deathtrap-dungeon\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Deathtrap Dungeon<\/em><\/a> from 1998.  That is all.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From GamePro, May 1998, p.72 ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> Graphics quality aside, do you think today&#8217;s video games are more sexist and violent than games from earlier eras?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think they have it backwards. Amid the recent media hullabaloo that modern video games are sexist and overly fixated on violence, I give you this ad for Deathtrap Dungeon from 1998. That is all. [ From GamePro, May 1998, p.72 ] Discussion Topic of the Week: Graphics quality aside, do you think today&#8217;s video [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,21,27,26,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-news-current-events","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\/873","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=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}