{"id":797,"date":"2015-08-15T11:00:31","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T11:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/?p=797"},"modified":"2015-08-09T23:02:50","modified_gmt":"2015-08-09T23:02:50","slug":"onm-remembered-311","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/?p=797","title":{"rendered":"ONM Remembered &#8211; #311"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">&#8220;At the beginning of a level, race or match there is never any explanation as to how the characters got there.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/bl\/onm\/onmems-398.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/bl\/onm\/thumb\/onmems-398th.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"339\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nfrom Official Nintendo Magazine issue 121 (October 2002)<!--more--><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This is a topic that&#8217;s bugged me on occasion, especially in fighting games. I don&#8217;t know if many fighting games frame themselves as official tournaments in their stories anymore, but I always wonder: how they do so much globe-trotting? Do they pay for the transport themselves, or do the tourney organisers arrange it? Are they escorted to the designated arena, or do they just find it themselves?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I ask because, man, the idea of stepping off a plane and being greeted by Birdie, who proceeds to lead you into the scummiest bathroom Britain has to offer for your official tournament fight just cracks me up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;At the beginning of a level, race or match there is never any explanation as to how the characters got there.&#8221; from Official Nintendo Magazine issue 121 (October 2002)<\/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":[60,37],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-onm-remembered","tag-letters","tag-onm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","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=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}