{"id":959,"date":"2016-11-12T11:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-11-12T11:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/?p=959"},"modified":"2016-09-01T10:16:45","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T10:16:45","slug":"onm-remembered-426","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/?p=959","title":{"rendered":"ONM Remembered &#8211; #426"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">&#8220;The car engines sound like vacuum cleaners, and there aren&#8217;t many other sounds aside from that.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/bl\/onm\/onmems-286.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/bl\/onm\/thumb\/onmems-286th.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nfrom Official Nintendo Magazine issue 88 (January 2000)<!--more--><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">If I remember correctly*, this game was announced very early in the N64&#8217;s life, supposedly planned for release in early 1998\/1999, but gave everyone the run-around until the new millennium. There was no shortage of racers on the N64 at this point &#8211; some of them even half-decent! &#8211; so for one to come out that controlled like a bar of soap in a skating rink&#8230; you have to ask yourself, why bother? Why did <b><i>anyone<\/i><\/b> bother?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">To its credit, it&#8217;s strangely compelling to watch on YouTube. It might be the lack of sleep talking, but the game in motion looks like a botched chalk drawing brought to life, and I can think of no other game that lets you run over the cast of <i>The Land Before Time<\/i>. It might very well be the first video game performance art piece. Put that gameplay on an easel and stick it in an art show.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">* <span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">(i wouldn&#8217;t need to remember if i could be arsed to dig out the issues again &#8211; have you ever tried filing things? it&#8217;s boring as hell! filing things is always a precursor to chucking those things out because who can live with that kind of responsibility)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The car engines sound like vacuum cleaners, and there aren&#8217;t many other sounds aside from that.&#8221; from Official Nintendo Magazine issue 88 (January 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":[37,6],"class_list":["post-959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-onm-remembered","tag-onm","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959","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=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}