{"id":877,"date":"2012-07-02T19:46:04","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T00:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=877"},"modified":"2012-07-02T20:01:18","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T01:01:18","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-crystalis-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/877\/retro-scan-of-the-week-crystalis-tips","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Crystalis Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/crystalis_tips_gelatin_pops_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/crystalis_tips_gelatin_pops_small.jpg\" alt=\"Crystalis Power Playing Tips from JELLO Gelatin Pops Box NES -  1990\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Frozen whipped gelatin on a stick.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I recently found this cardboard tip sheet for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crystalis\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Crystalis<\/em><\/a> in a pile of my old stuff at my parents&#8217; house.  As you can see, I cut it out of a JELLO Gelatin Pops box in or around 1990.<\/p>\n<p>The tip sheet seems to serve a triple marketing purpose: 1) to promote NES games (specifically <em>Crystalis<\/em>, in this case), 2) to promote the 1990 Nintendo World Championships, and 3) to promote Nintendo Power magazine.<\/p>\n<p>I love finding tie-in marketing artifacts like this &#8212; I&#8217;m glad I saved it all those years ago.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From JELLO Gelatin Pops box, circa 1990 ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> Do you remember cutting video game tips out of boxes, magazines, or other paper publications?  Tell us about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frozen whipped gelatin on a stick. I recently found this cardboard tip sheet for Crystalis in a pile of my old stuff at my parents&#8217; house. As you can see, I cut it out of a JELLO Gelatin Pops box in or around 1990. The tip sheet seems to serve a triple marketing purpose: 1) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,22,27,26,9],"tags":[131,127,130,126,125,124,129,123,128,60],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-nes-famicom","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-retrogaming","tag-131","tag-crystalis","tag-game-tips","tag-gelatin-pops","tag-jello","tag-nes","tag-nintendo-power","tag-nintendo-world-championships","tag-power-player-tips","tag-retro-scan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877","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=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}