{"id":757,"date":"2016-05-24T13:17:22","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T12:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agremlinintheworks.co.uk\/archive\/?p=757"},"modified":"2016-05-24T13:17:22","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T12:17:22","slug":"rocky-rocco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/24\/rocky-rocco\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocky \/ Rocco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Developed by Dinamic of Madrid, Spain, this boxing simulator had an official release as &#8220;Rocky&#8221; before the lawyers came calling and it was quickly renamed to &#8220;Rocco&#8221;. Why Ian Stewart and Gremlin didn&#8217;t opt to buy what must have been a money-spinning licence is unsure, especially as the game went toe-to-toe with Elite Systems&#8217; rival Frank Bruno&#8217;s Boxing.<\/p>\n<p>The Amstrad port as seen in the inlay scan was converted by Christian Urquhart with assistance from Dollarsoft&#8217;s Richard Stevenson and Phil Durbidge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agremlinintheworks.co.uk\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/img_scan_487.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-758\" src=\"http:\/\/agremlinintheworks.co.uk\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/img_scan_487-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"img_scan_487\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/img_scan_487-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/img_scan_487-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/img_scan_487-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/agremlinintheworks.co.uk\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/img_scan_477.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-759\" src=\"http:\/\/agremlinintheworks.co.uk\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/img_scan_477-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"img_scan_477\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/img_scan_477-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/img_scan_477-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/img_scan_477-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=hardistymark\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-size=\"large\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Developed by Dinamic of Madrid, Spain, this boxing simulator had an official release as &#8220;Rocky&#8221; before the lawyers came calling and it was quickly renamed to &#8220;Rocco&#8221;. 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The Amstrad port as seen in the inlay scan was converted by Christian Urquhart with assistance from Dollarsoft&#8217;s Richard Stevenson and Phil Durbidge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,24,42,64,4,60,117,114,9,25],"tags":[487,153,485,489,483,447,361,482,481,484,486,488],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-11","category-8-bit","category-amstrad","category-inlays","category-games","category-platform","category-pr-material","category-gremlin-the-company","category-year","category-zx-spectrum","tag-christian","tag-conversion","tag-dinamic","tag-dollarsoft","tag-legal","tag-port","tag-richard","tag-rocco","tag-rocky","tag-spain","tag-stevenson","tag-urquhart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":761,"href":"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions\/761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}