{"id":1028,"date":"2017-03-14T11:00:46","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T11:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/?p=1028"},"modified":"2017-03-17T23:19:13","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T23:19:13","slug":"onm-remembered-473","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/?p=1028","title":{"rendered":"ONM Remembered &#8211; #473"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">&#8220;Surely this must be quite exciting? Actually, no. We&#8217;ve made more exciting cups of tea.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/bl\/onm\/onmems-453.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/bl\/onm\/thumb\/onmems-453th.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nfrom Official Nintendo Magazine issue 07 (September 2006)<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Oh, the DS. What a hive of dodgy multimedia and crappy tie-ins it was. Sure, we can laugh now, knowing its life has ended and we can scour its library for worthwhile games after the fact&#8230; but when it was alive it was nothing but frustration, trying to find something decent among the waves of <a href=\"http:\/\/rq87.flyingomelette.com\/RQ\/DSsucks\/DSsucks.html\">crap<\/a>. The role of &#8220;crap&#8221; in today&#8217;s column will be played by <i>Alex Rider: Stormbreaker<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>I was about to slam the poor console for having a movie tie-in game, <i>Robots<\/i>, among its launch line-up, but then I remembered that&#8217;s nothing new &#8211; the N64 and GameCube both debuted with a <i>Star Wars<\/i> game, <i>Shadows of the Empire<\/i> and <i>Rogue Squadron<\/i>! And if you want an impromptu history lesson, licensed launch games even go as far back as the Colecovision with <i>The Smurfs: Rescue in Gargamel&#8217;s Castle<\/i> and <i>Ken Uston&#8217;s Blackjack\/Poker<\/i>. Even Nintendo&#8217;s own Famicom had <i>Popeye<\/i> among its first products!<\/p>\n<p>Long story short: I&#8217;ll take any excuse to shit on <i>Robots<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Surely this must be quite exciting? Actually, no. We&#8217;ve made more exciting cups of tea.&#8221; from Official Nintendo Magazine issue 07 (September 2006)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[37,6],"class_list":["post-1028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-onm-remembered","tag-onm","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}