{"id":754,"date":"2015-06-02T11:00:55","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T11:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/?p=754"},"modified":"2015-05-18T19:33:44","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T19:33:44","slug":"onm-remembered-282","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/?p=754","title":{"rendered":"ONM Remembered &#8211; #282"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">&#8220;Exchange electronic mail messages with other SmartComTM users&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/bl\/onm\/onmems-256.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/bl\/onm\/thumb\/onmems-256th.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nfrom Pok\u00e9mon Master Guide (1999)<!--more--><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A common sight in the mags of the 90s &#8211; check out all these sick devices for your handheld of choice! Want to have fifty million save files for <i>Final Fantasy Legend<\/i>? Want to play <i>Revenge of the Gator<\/i> on the big screen? Want to find the phone number of the nearest Chinese restaurant using only four buttons and a d-pad? Well, have CodeJunkies got just the thing for you!<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I&#8217;ve talked long and hard about my stupid infatuation with big dumb devices for the Game Boy, but I&#8217;ll also say I&#8217;m glad to see them gone. You can&#8217;t keep relying on third-party bozos forever to excuse your lack of a backlight, Ninty! And the very notion of buying a \u00a325 cartridge just to have e-mail, a calculator and an alarm on the go seems&#8230; well, very 90s, doesn&#8217;t it? In its defence, the original Game Boy probably had a strong enough battery life that it could serve as an alarm clock. My PSP can barely survive my Friday commute.<br \/>\nI wonder if any two people <b><i>ever<\/i><\/b> exchanged messages using the SmartCom. Outside of the CodeJunkies offices, that is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Exchange electronic mail messages with other SmartComTM users&#8221; from Pok\u00e9mon Master Guide (1999)<\/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":[33,37,42],"class_list":["post-754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-onm-remembered","tag-ad","tag-onm","tag-peripherals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754","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=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}