{"id":764,"date":"2015-06-23T11:00:44","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T11:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/?p=764"},"modified":"2015-06-07T22:22:28","modified_gmt":"2015-06-07T22:22:28","slug":"onm-remembered-291","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/?p=764","title":{"rendered":"ONM Remembered &#8211; #291"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">&#8220;Strap yourself in for the most competitive, addictive, wide open racing action ever.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/bl\/onm\/onmems-307.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/bl\/onm\/thumb\/onmems-307th.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"263\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nfrom Official Nintendo Magazine issue 58 (July 1997)<!--more--><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Only just now did I ponder to myself: is ONM Remembered the last remaining venue for complaining about video game ads in print media? I&#8217;m almost sure I recall stumbling across bunches of threads of that nature years ago in forums, but I wonder if I&#8217;m just deluding myself. <i>Who talks about print media anymore?!<\/i><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I think what I eventually wanted to say was: this is probably the kind of ad gamers want. No strange live-action interpretation of the in-game action. No allegories. No obtuse tucked-away allusions to what the freakin&#8217; game is like. Just official renders slapped against a bright backdrop with big text; you know these guys already, here&#8217;s a tagline, why haven&#8217;t you bought the game already?<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">(admittedly this only works when it&#8217;s one of the biggest gaming franchises out there &#8211; Aero the Acrobat ain&#8217;t gonna turn heads without some wow factor, i&#8217;d bet)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Strap yourself in for the most competitive, addictive, wide open racing action ever.&#8221; from Official Nintendo Magazine issue 58 (July 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":[33,27,37],"class_list":["post-764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-onm-remembered","tag-ad","tag-mario","tag-onm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764","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=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}