{"id":894,"date":"2012-08-20T12:22:02","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T17:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=894"},"modified":"2012-08-20T12:45:18","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T17:45:18","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-this-scrapes-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/894\/retro-scan-of-the-week-this-scrapes-for-you","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> This Scrape&#8217;s For You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/world_series_scrape_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/world_series_scrape_small.jpg\" alt=\"Sega Saturn World Series Baseball 98 1998 Advertisement - 1997\" class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>World Series Baseball 98 for the Sega Saturn<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve written about gratuitous and graphic video game advertising of the 1990s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/785\">more than<\/a> a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/586\">few times<\/a> over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesetwatch.com\/2006\/03\/game_ads_agogo_proof_that_vide.php\">the years<\/a>, but I never get tired of revisiting this wildly bombastic era in consumer marketing.<\/p>\n<p>Here we see a nice ad for <em>World Series Baseball 98<\/em> for the Sega Saturn, complete with front-and-center forearm scrape.  I don&#8217;t know about you, but this makes me want to play baseball.  Injury sells.<\/p>\n<p><center><strong><em>See Also:<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/785\">Broken Tetrisphere Teeth<\/a> (2010)<br \/>\n<strong><em>See Also:<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/586\">Super Mario World 2<\/a> (2009)<\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From GamePro, October 1997, rear cover ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> Would a graphic ad like this make you more or less likely to play a certain video game?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Series Baseball 98 for the Sega Saturn I&#8217;ve written about gratuitous and graphic video game advertising of the 1990s more than a few times over the years, but I never get tired of revisiting this wildly bombastic era in consumer marketing. Here we see a nice ad for World Series Baseball 98 for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27,26,9],"tags":[206,201,205,204,203,60,202,198,197,199,200],"class_list":["post-894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-retrogaming","tag-206","tag-baseball","tag-gamepro","tag-gratuitous-advertising","tag-gross","tag-retro-scan","tag-scrape","tag-sega","tag-sega-saturn","tag-sega-sports","tag-world-series-baseball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894","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=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}