{"id":865,"date":"2016-05-24T11:00:22","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/?p=865"},"modified":"2016-04-16T14:38:19","modified_gmt":"2016-04-16T14:38:19","slug":"onm-remembered-355","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/?p=865","title":{"rendered":"ONM Remembered – #355"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Presumably – if this is anything to go by – the Japanese game is played with a beach ball.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nfrom N64 Magazine issue 10 (Christmas 1997)<\/p>\n

Would I be called a fake gamer nerd if I confessed I finally found a mild appreciation for sports? I was asked to keep score of a football game for a friend while he used the bathroom, and seeing the tug of war between players, the war of attrition over maintaining the ball, the roar of the crowd over last-minute saves and swerves… I could finally see what all the fuss was about! There wasn’t a single goal scored in forty minutes, mind you, but it was a tense and close match. I won’t call myself a fan just yet, but it held my interest without the need for power armour or flamethrowers, though having an enthusiastic live audience does help a great deal.
\nThat said, man alive, the sport’s been around for a hundred odd years and you’d think they’d scale the pitches down a tad. Some blockhead would kick the ball to the other side of the pitch and the poor lads are probably thinking, “oh, now I have to run all the way over there<\/i> now”. Take a cue from ice hockey and set those goals mere inches from each other, why doncha.<\/p>\n

I also highlighted this because I absolutely adore those tiny, blocky little character models. Pity they weren’t in a better game, from the sounds of it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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