{"id":501,"date":"2013-07-11T11:00:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/?p=501"},"modified":"2013-07-01T18:58:55","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T18:58:55","slug":"onm-remembered-121","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/?p=501","title":{"rendered":"ONM Remembered &#8211; #121"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">&#8220;Play as the good guys and rescue the Princess, or play as Bowser to capture her.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/bl\/onm\/onmems-144.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/bl\/onm\/thumb\/onmems-144th.JPG\" width=\"360\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nfrom Official Nintendo Magazine issue 63 (December 1997)<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I quite like the sounds of this one, even if it is dredged in the stink of so many amateur &#8220;here&#8217;s how I would reboot a kid-friendly franchise&#8221; articles. Okay, Nintendo obviously wouldn&#8217;t approve of Mario and company toting huge fuck-off chain guns and blowing each other to pieces, but the core idea of a Mario-themed capture-the-flag just tickles my fancy.<br \/>\nThink of it as a side-scrolling real-time strategy! Set up troop placements, traps and blocks to keep the enemy out, then take control of a player character to storm the other side. I can&#8217;t think of any 2D platformers with capture-the-flag modes off-hand, but given the pleasing simplicity of Mario mechanics, it&#8217;s got the potential to be a winning concept.<br \/>\n&#8230; where&#8217;s <i><b>my<\/b><\/i> Rumble Pak, ONM?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Play as the good guys and rescue the Princess, or play as Bowser to capture her.&#8221; from Official Nintendo Magazine issue 63 (December 1997)<\/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":[27,37,56],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-onm-remembered","tag-mario","tag-onm","tag-spice-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","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=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}