{"id":1066,"date":"2012-10-18T12:10:48","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T20:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2012-10-18T12:10:48","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T20:10:48","slug":"mad-mercs-gaming-gazette-issues-32-to-40-are-now-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/2012\/mad-mercs-gaming-gazette-issues-32-to-40-are-now-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Mad Merc&#8217;s Gaming Gazette Issues 32 To 40 Are Now Online!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/demonsmall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/demonsmall-252x300.jpg\" alt=\"Checkered Demon Logo Small\" title=\"demonsmall\" width=\"252\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-755\" srcset=\"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/demonsmall-252x300.jpg 252w, https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/demonsmall.jpg 275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/a>During the early 90&#8217;s I published a newsletter that I emailed out to anyone who would listen.  At the time my audience was comprised primarily of gaming buddies and folks on the Checkered Demon BBS.  Each issue is like a collection of mini blog posts.  \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Topics vary from issue to issue but focus on Hero Games product reviews\/rules, video game reviews, comic book reviews, and other miscellaneous news items that would be appropriate for my gaming group.  Looking back I think doing the small reviews in these issues whet my appetite for the type of more in depth reviews that I am performing now on this very blog.<\/p>\n<p>You can find copies of the currently posted issues at this URL: <a href=\"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/file-downloads\/other-files\/\" title=\"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/file-downloads\/other-files\/\">https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/file-downloads\/other-files\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Issues 32 to 40 include the following highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>John Turner tells the story of his mysterious superhero character Sparkle.<\/li>\n<li>Comments on the top 10 computer games in 1992 from Computer Gaming World, Software Publishers Association, and Entertainment Advertisement.<\/li>\n<li>An article on Call Of Cthulhu&#8217;s influence on role-playing games.<\/li>\n<li>Reviews of <i>Swords Of Shar Pei<\/i> and <i>Shade:The Changing Man<\/i> comics by The Kid<\/li>\n<li>Reviews of <i>Strike Force<\/i> and <i>Western Hero<\/i>.<\/li>\n<li>More funny gaming quotes!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More issues are coming soon!  Watch this blog for details!  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the early 90&#8217;s I published a newsletter that I emailed out to anyone who would listen. At the time my audience was comprised primarily of gaming buddies and folks on the Checkered Demon BBS. Each issue is like a collection of mini blog posts. \ud83d\ude09 Topics vary from issue to issue but focus on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-growlings","category-site-updates"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}