{"id":89,"date":"2006-03-13T07:00:59","date_gmt":"2006-03-13T12:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=89"},"modified":"2014-10-02T12:45:54","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T17:45:54","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-play-it-loud-super-game-boy-flier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/89\/retro-scan-of-the-week-play-it-loud-super-game-boy-flier","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">Retro Scan of the Week:<\/span> &#8220;Play it Loud!&#8221; Super Game Boy Flier"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"caption\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/sgbflier_1_large.jpg\" target=\"new\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/sgbflier_1_small.jpg\" alt=\"Super Game Boy Flier\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption_text\">Remember the &#8220;Play it Loud!&#8221; days?  I almost wish I didn&#8217;t.  Even then I would cringe every time I heard or read Nintendo&#8217;s ads.  Nonetheless, this flier sets off all the relevant nostalgia alarms in my brain, with specific regard to the Super Game Boy.  The Super Game Boy (SGB), for me, was one of the most exciting Nintendo products launched in the 1990s.  You could play all your current Game Boy titles in <strong>four whole colors<\/strong>.  But of course, I usually ended up using just a greyscale-like palette and simply enjoying the fact that you could <em>actually see<\/em> the games you were playing for once.  Then there were the SGB-enhanced games that had more colors when you played them on the SGB.  The SGB I bought had the first SGB-enhanced game <em>Donkey Kong<\/em> as a pack-in.  It was one hell of a winning combination.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the &#8220;Play it Loud!&#8221; days? I almost wish I didn&#8217;t. Even then I would cringe every time I heard or read Nintendo&#8217;s ads. Nonetheless, this flier sets off all the relevant nostalgia alarms in my brain, with specific regard to the Super Game Boy. The Super Game Boy (SGB), for me, was one 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":[13,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-retro-scan-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","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=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}