{"id":8098,"date":"2010-08-28T02:12:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-28T02:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/28\/the-misleading-world-of-atari-2600-box-art-part\/"},"modified":"2018-12-11T01:25:18","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T01:25:18","slug":"the-misleading-world-of-atari-2600-box-art-part","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/28\/the-misleading-world-of-atari-2600-box-art-part\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-8098 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/28\/the-misleading-world-of-atari-2600-box-art-part\/attachment\/8099\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/tumblr_l7ubahc1pb1qzxaqho1_640-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/tumblr_l7ubahc1pb1qzxaqho1_640-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/tumblr_l7ubahc1pb1qzxaqho1_640-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rookery9.aviary.com.s3.amazonaws.com\/4871500\/4871880_83de.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rundlc.com\/news\/the-misleading-world-of-atari-2600-box-art-xbox-live\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Misleading World Of Atari 2600 Box Art Part 1<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rundlc.com\/news\/the-misleading-world-of-atari-box-art-part-two-xbox-live\/\" target=\"_blank\">[Part 2]<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rundlc.com\/news\/the-misleading-world-of-atari-2600-box-art-part-three-xbox-live\/\" target=\"_blank\">[Part 3]<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>rundlc<\/em> notes that &ldquo;Box art has come a long way since the 1970s and 80s, back when artists had to dream up elaborate sketches and paintings to up sell games devoid of detail.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>As crappy as these games look now, I can look back and remember how cool they seemed back in the day. \u00a0Still, images from games like <em>Combat<\/em> above show a pretty big disparity&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Misleading World Of Atari 2600 Box Art Part 1\u00a0[Part 2] [Part 3] rundlc notes that &ldquo;Box art has come a long way since the 1970s and 80s, back when artists had to dream up elaborate sketches and paintings to up sell games devoid of detail.&rdquo; As crappy as these games look now, I can &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/28\/the-misleading-world-of-atari-2600-box-art-part\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8100,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8098\/revisions\/8100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}