{"id":115502,"date":"2020-07-17T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T01:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/07\/move_aside_mario_a_new_f-zero_twitter_account_has_been_discovered"},"modified":"2020-07-17T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T01:05:00","slug":"move-aside-mario-a-new-f-zero-twitter-account-has-been-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/17\/move-aside-mario-a-new-f-zero-twitter-account-has-been-discovered\/","title":{"rendered":"Move Aside Mario, A New F-Zero Twitter Account Has Been Discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Following on from the discovery of a private Super Mario Twitter account earlier this week<\/a>, there are now reports that another<\/em> account – with a recovery email potentially<\/em> linked to Nintendo – has been discovered.<\/p>\n

Yep, this time it’s for Nintendo’s dormant F-Zero franchise which hasn’t received a new entry in about 16 years.<\/p>\n

As explained by VGC, the protected Twitter handle @FZeroJP<\/a> was registered in March 2020 this year – the same time as the @SuperMario35th<\/a> account and is attached to a similar-looking email that falls in line with Nintendo’s ‘nintendo.co.jp’ address.<\/p>\n

This address also seemingly matches the emails<\/a> tied to the official SplatoonJP and SmashBrosJP Twitter accounts.<\/p>\n

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Of course, at this stage, it’s impossible to confirm if the account was created by Nintendo – even if it was, it might just be the company reserving handles for its IP on social media.<\/p>\n

A similar story recently did the rounds within the Xbox community<\/a> when Perfect Dark<\/a><\/strong> and Fable<\/strong> Twitter accounts were discovered in March and June of this year, and an Xbox employee said it was “standard practice” to secure social handles for IP.<\/p>\n

If Nintendo was to announce a new F-Zero game, it would be the first one since the Japan-only 2004 Game Boy Advance title, F-Zero Climax<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

What do you make of this latest discovery? Do you think it’s anything worth getting excited about? Tell us down below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following on from the discovery of a private Super Mario Twitter account earlier this week, there are now reports that another account – with a recovery email potentially linked to Nintendo – has been discovered. Yep, this time it’s for Nintendo’s dormant F-Zero franchise which hasn’t received a new entry in about 16 years. As […]<\/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-115502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115502","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=115502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}