{"id":970,"date":"2013-04-01T04:00:52","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T09:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=970"},"modified":"2013-04-01T18:57:15","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T23:57:15","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-final-four-97","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/970\/retro-scan-of-the-week-final-four-97","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Final Four &#8217;97"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/finalfour_97_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/finalfour_97_small.jpg\" alt=\"MCA Mindscape NCAA Basketball Final Four '97 1997 Ad advertisement - 1997\" class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>It&#8217;s that time of year again&#8230;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a big fan of sports, and I&#8217;m not a big fan of sports games (<em>Blades of Steel<\/em> for the NES is probably my favorite &#8212; off the top of my head).  But having grown up in the heart of ACC basketball country surrounded by great and once-great teams (UNC, Duke, NCSU, Wake Forest, etc.), I have a soft spot for the ACC and NCAA college basketball tournaments.  I tend to watch a couple games a year.<\/p>\n<p>So I can&#8217;t tell you much about <em>NCAA Basketball Final Four &#8217;97<\/em>, because I&#8217;ve never played it.  The closest I&#8217;ve come was <em>NBA Live &#8217;97<\/em> for the SNES, and that was pretty fun for a basketball game.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From GamePro, April 1997, p.35 ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> What&#8217;s your favorite basketball video game of all time?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of year again&#8230; I&#8217;m not a big fan of sports, and I&#8217;m not a big fan of sports games (Blades of Steel for the NES is probably my favorite &#8212; off the top of my head). But having grown up in the heart of ACC basketball country surrounded by great and once-great [&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":[206,150,473,478,476,205,474,479,475,419,359,358,477],"class_list":["post-970","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-advertisement","tag-basketball","tag-blades-of-steel","tag-final-four","tag-gamepro","tag-mindscape","tag-nba-live","tag-ncaa","tag-pc-games","tag-playstation","tag-psx","tag-sports-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970","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=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}