{"id":651,"date":"2014-12-13T11:00:40","date_gmt":"2014-12-13T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/?p=651"},"modified":"2014-12-08T19:48:35","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T19:48:35","slug":"onm-remembered-209","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/?p=651","title":{"rendered":"ONM Remembered &#8211; #209"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">&#8220;The X-Box prototype came with an appalling controller that creaked and groaned when it was squeezed, and an analogue stick that could best be described as evil.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/bl\/onm\/onmems-231.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/bl\/onm\/thumb\/onmems-231th.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"272\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nfrom N64 Magazine issue 41 (May 2000)<!--more--><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The early days of the GameCube hype train, back when it was still the Dolphin, had absolutely no known footage or games, and thought publicly trolling its third-party developers at the Game Developers Conference was a good idea. At least we got a chuckle out of it.<br \/>\nAside from the proposed release dates being way out of whack with when they were really released &#8211; Europe didn&#8217;t get the GameCube &#8217;til the end of Spring 2002! &#8211; there&#8217;s not much to be read into this, outside of a reminder of how dodgy that original Xbox was in its development. It is interesting that Retro Studios, Left Field Productions and Nintendo Software Technologies all get a mention when their output was slim to nil by the time this was printed. The little guys deserve mention too, I suppose!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The X-Box prototype came with an appalling controller that creaked and groaned when it was squeezed, and an analogue stick that could best be described as evil.&#8221; from N64 Magazine issue 41 (May 2000)<\/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":[48,74],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-onm-remembered","tag-n64-magazine","tag-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","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=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}