{"id":114004,"date":"2020-06-10T21:20:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T21:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/06\/marios_one-time_rival_alex_kidd_is_getting_a_timely_revival"},"modified":"2020-06-10T21:20:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T21:20:00","slug":"marios-one-time-rival-alex-kidd-is-getting-a-timely-revival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/06\/10\/marios-one-time-rival-alex-kidd-is-getting-a-timely-revival\/","title":{"rendered":"Mario&#8217;s One-Time Rival Alex Kidd Is Getting A Timely Revival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c989fdb1ac055\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c989fdb1ac055\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Before Sonic, Sega had Alex Kidd. This odd-looking character starred in a series of titles on the company&#8217;s 8-bit Master System console (and a solitary 16-bit outing) before making way for the Blue Blur on the Mega Drive \/ Genesis, and the rest is history.<\/p>\n<p>Alex has had minor roles in recent Sega games \u2013 including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wii\/sega_superstars_tennis\"><strong>Sega Superstars Tennis<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 but he has been largely forgotten by modern players; a footnote in Sega&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>Until now, that is. Merge Games has just revealed that it is remaking <strong>Alex Kid in Mircale World<\/strong> for PC and consoles, including the Switch. The game will not only give Alex a HD makeover, it will also give you the chance to play the game with the original Master System graphics.<\/p>\n<p>Switch owners can already play the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/sega_ages_alex_kidd_in_miracle_world\">original game<\/a> as part of M2&#8217;s Sega Ages series.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"33FE9D1A F74B 4F14 8660 0C785F661CE4\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c989fdb1ac055\/33fe9d1a-f74b-4f14-8660-0c785f661ce4.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c989fdb1ac055\/33fe9d1a-f74b-4f14-8660-0c785f661ce4.900x.jpg\" alt=\"33FE9D1A F74B 4F14 8660 0C785F661CE4\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"AC4EFBC9 3697 4E4E AD99 795FE09DCB40\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4caa10816f4a6\/ac4efbc9-3697-4e4e-ad99-795fe09dcb40.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4caa10816f4a6\/ac4efbc9-3697-4e4e-ad99-795fe09dcb40.900x.jpg\" alt=\"AC4EFBC9 3697 4E4E AD99 795FE09DCB40\"><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] Before Sonic, Sega had Alex Kidd. This odd-looking character starred in a series of titles on the company&#8217;s 8-bit Master System console (and a solitary 16-bit outing) before making way for the Blue Blur on the Mega Drive \/ Genesis, and the rest is history. Alex has had minor roles in recent Sega [&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-114004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114004","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=114004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}