{"id":94,"date":"2006-03-20T07:00:48","date_gmt":"2006-03-20T12:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=94"},"modified":"2006-07-28T18:58:26","modified_gmt":"2006-07-28T23:58:26","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-video-game-saver-never-die-with-unlimited-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/94\/retro-scan-of-the-week-video-game-saver-never-die-with-unlimited-fun","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">Retro Scan of the Week:<\/span> &#8220;Video Game Saver (Never Die) with Unlimited Fun&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"caption\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/gd3_1_large.jpg\" target=\"new\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/gd3_1_small.jpg\" alt=\"Super Game Boy Flier\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption_text\">This advertisement appeared in the September 1995 issue of &#8220;Electronics Now.&#8221;  I found it lurking in the back of the magazine &#8212; you know the place, the cheap black and white section where all the &#8220;shady&#8221; ads are (for porn BBSes, diet pills, pirated games, etc.).  This particular ad is for what appears to be a re-branded version of the &#8220;Game Doctor III&#8221; game copier for the Super Nintendo \/ Super Famicom.  I happen to have a Game Doctor III, but could never get it to work properly (I prefer my Super WildCard DX2 instead, which vastly outclasses it anyway).  &#8220;Backup devices&#8221; such as this are\/were illegal, of course, so it&#8217;s interesting seeing how this particular distributor skirted the issue with their entertaining &#8220;Engrish&#8221; description of the product.  For Great Justice!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This advertisement appeared in the September 1995 issue of &#8220;Electronics Now.&#8221; I found it lurking in the back of the magazine &#8212; you know the place, the cheap black and white section where all the &#8220;shady&#8221; ads are (for porn BBSes, diet pills, pirated games, etc.). This particular ad is for what appears to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-collecting","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\/94","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=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}