{"id":421,"date":"2012-12-25T11:00:40","date_gmt":"2012-12-25T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/?p=421"},"modified":"2024-10-28T11:22:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T11:22:49","slug":"onm-remembered-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/?p=421","title":{"rendered":"ONM Remembered – #70"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Is your card a Mega Mario or an import also-ran…?”<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nfrom Official Nintendo Magazine issue 63 (December 1997)<\/p>\n

Last week I talked about the source of the Nintendo All Star Battle Cards… now here’s the source of the other<\/i> Nintendo All Star Battle Cards<\/a>!<\/p>\n

It wasn’t just the cards themselves they put love into, there’s a lot of text and colourful graphics here for a game that basically amounts to “compare numbers.” Heck, they even used the cards as an incentive to get people to subscribe! Oh, foolish readers of the mid-90s. How they believed they would ever get a free gift as memorable and as treasurable as this! Enjoy your crappy tips and tricks books, suckers!
\n(or were those from N64 Magazine? gosh, i can’t remember.)<\/span><\/p>\n

What I’m surprised to see is that the magazine accepted comments and critique on the cards! I shouldn’t be surprised, given how much love and fun the magazine gave to reader submissions during this period (before it devolved into sensible things like asking for release dates)<\/span>, but I think that’s a really sweet gesture. I sincerely wish I knew about this when the cards weren’t<\/i> fifteen years old. Holy shit I’m suddenly depressed.
\nI played the heck out of these cards, wouldn’t you know, and I would’ve loved to have had more variety. Even just sending them a “THANX VERY MUCH!” letter in scribbled crayon would’ve been enough to convey my gratitude.<\/p>\n

Although once in a while ONM Remembered covers something that legitimately stuck in my mind ever since I read it all those years ago, more often than not it’s just something daft that caught my eye as a cynical adult. For all my snarkiness, bitterness and I-can’t-stand-this-Ragey-fucker-ness, I just want to say that I really appreciated these cards. I got a lot of play time out of them (but I couldn’t have done it without my good ol’ dorky friends!)<\/span>, and they’re still sitting on the shelf next to me as I type this.<\/p>\n

Thanks very much, Official UK Nintendo Magazine, and Merry Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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