{"id":111986,"date":"2020-04-24T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/04\/the_japan_retro_game_association_offers_super_famicoms_to_avoid_lockdown_boredom"},"modified":"2020-04-24T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T14:00:00","slug":"the-japan-retro-game-association-offers-super-famicoms-to-avoid-lockdown-boredom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/04\/24\/the-japan-retro-game-association-offers-super-famicoms-to-avoid-lockdown-boredom\/","title":{"rendered":"The Japan Retro Game Association Offers Super Famicoms To Avoid Lockdown Boredom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4b5de52e94ed2\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4b5de52e94ed2\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<header class=\"article-header\" readability=\"9.0843373493976\">\n<section class=\"title\" readability=\"0.53125\">\n<aside><\/aside>\n<p class=\"description\">Donkey Kong Country saves the day<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"byline\">\n<ul class=\"article-author\">\n<li class=\" first\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"avatar\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/users\/741\/avatar.jpg\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" alt=\"Dazza\"><\/li>\n<li class=\"authors last\">by <a class=\"author-name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/users\/Dazza\">Darren Calvert<\/a> <span class=\"icon icon-time\"><\/span> <time class=\"date age \" datetime=\"2020-04-24T14:00:00+00:00\"><span>7 hours ago<\/span><\/time><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"body body-text article-text\" readability=\"36.145956607495\">\n<section class=\"text\" readability=\"38.917915774447\">\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><\/figure>\n<p>Despite all the difficulties presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, the situation has also brought out some amazing acts of human kindness. Now we can add the Japan Retro Game Association to our list of lovely people, as they have offered to loan out 100 slightly yellowing Super Famicom consoles to Japanese residents who are bored stuck at home during lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>Entertainment is guaranteed as each console will come bundled with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/donkey_kong_country\">Donkey Kong Country<\/a><\/strong> and <strong>Final Fantasy VI<\/strong>. To qualify for a SNES loaner, Japanese residents simply need to <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/jarga.or.jp\/\">enter a lottery by filling in a form<\/a>; priority will be given to households with children under 16 years of age. Lockdown is, of course, a good time to educate them on the 16-bit classics.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\" readability=\"4.7705263157895\"><p><span lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\" readability=\"4.3995098039216\">\u65b0\u578b\u30b3\u30ed\u30ca\u30a6\u30a4\u30eb\u30b9\u3067\u81ea\u5b85\u5f85\u6a5f\u3092\u4f59\u5100\u306a\u304f\u3055\u308c\u3066\u3044\u308b\u5b50\u4f9b\u9054\u306e\u70ba\u3001<br \/>\u4eca\u56de\u30b9\u30fc\u30d1\u30fc\u30d5\u30a1\u30df\u30b3\u30f3\u672c\u4f53\u30bb\u30c3\u30c8\u3092100\u4e16\u5e2f\u306b\u652f\u7d66\u3057\u307e\u3059\u3002<br \/>\u697d\u3057\u3093\u3067\u9802\u3051\u308c\u3070\u5e78\u3044\u3067\u3059\u3002<\/p>\n<p>\u2606\u5fdc\u52df\u8cc7\u683c<br \/>\u246016\u6b73\u672a\u6e80\u306e\u5b50\u4f9b\u304c\u5c45\u308b\u4e16\u5e2f<br \/>\u2461\u9001\u6599\u7740\u6255\u3044\u3067\u53d7\u3051\u53d6\u308c\u308b\u65b9<\/p>\n<p>\u2606\u5fdc\u52df\u65b9\u6cd5<br \/>\u8a73\u3057\u304f\u306f\u5354\u4f1aHP\u3092\u3054\u89a7\u4e0b\u3055\u3044\u3002<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AZCDBJ2WTX\">https:\/\/t.co\/AZCDBJ2WTX<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SNBwLnSdV9\">pic.twitter.com\/SNBwLnSdV9<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span>\u2014 \u65e5\u672c\u30ec\u30c8\u30ed\u30b2\u30fc\u30e0\u5354\u4f1a (@japanretrogame) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/japanretrogame\/status\/1253305426445135872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 23, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>It&#8217;s a heartwarming offer which we&#8217;re sure will make a lot of people happy. Let us know if you&#8217;ve spotted any similar random acts of kindness in these troubling times with a comment below.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"text source\">[source <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/twitter.com\/japanretrogame\/status\/1253305426445135872\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/japanretrogame\/status\/1253305426445135872\">twitter.com<\/a>, via <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/www.dualshockers.com\/japan-free-snes-coronavirus-retro-game-association\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dualshockers.com\/japan-free-snes-coronavirus-retro-game-association\/\">dualshockers.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/nintendolife.com\/retro\/related-info\/3a34ccf21c46a2f57e8b5f43c4d60be2 @ 2020-04-24T21:41:18+01:00 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"see-also\">\n<dl>\n<dt>See Also<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"first\"><\/dd>\n<dt>Related Games<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"first\"><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donkey Kong Country saves the day by Darren Calvert 7 hours ago Despite all the difficulties presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, the situation has also brought out some amazing acts of human kindness. Now we can add the Japan Retro Game Association to our list of lovely people, as they have offered to loan out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}