{"id":340,"date":"2012-08-30T11:00:23","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T11:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/?p=340"},"modified":"2012-08-16T14:08:22","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T14:08:22","slug":"onm-remembered-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/?p=340","title":{"rendered":"ONM Remembered &#8211; #24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">&#8220;Serious soccer sim with a difference&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/bl\/onm\/onmems-20.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"SO MUCH MOTION BLUR!!!!\" src=\"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/bl\/onm\/thumb\/onmems-20th.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"254\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n(from Official Nintendo Magazine issue 64 (January 1998)<!--more--><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I love it when game mags print reader-submitted game ideas. Especially when they&#8217;re just <em>totally nuts<\/em>. It might have to do with my terminal lack of interest in football, though, but this one just seems so sterile. So&#8230; <em>uninspiring<\/em>. You&#8217;ve got a pen, paper and a brain with infinite imagination. What will <strong>your<\/strong> game idea be?<br \/>\n&#8230; apes playing football? <em>Oh.<\/em> All right, then.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">That&#8217;s what I love about when people write game ideas. They&#8217;re not faced with the unfortunate reality of designing it, programming it and selling it, or having to take into account whether or not the market is ready for a Jerry Springer slash televised murder simulator. If you&#8217;ve a game idea, good or not, <em>you write it down!<\/em> After all, it&#8217;s only text. What have you got to lose? This, however, just seems like a wasted opportunity.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Then again, I suppose a bit of pandering prose to a mag already obsessed with footie and Rare is a quick and easy way of scoring yourself a third-party Rumble Pak. If that was indeed the case: smart thinking, Laycock!<br \/>\nMind you, Rare seems like the kind of company <span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">(back then, at least)<\/span> who would run with an idea like this, and probably make a decent game out of it, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Serious soccer sim with a difference&#8221; (from Official Nintendo Magazine issue 64 (January 1998)<\/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":[58,37,56],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-onm-remembered","tag-footie","tag-onm","tag-spice-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","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=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}