{"id":20991,"date":"2018-05-19T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-19T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/video_some_mario_games_just_cant_properly_be_played_anymore"},"modified":"2018-05-19T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-19T11:00:00","slug":"video-some-mario-games-just-cant-properly-be-played-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/05\/19\/video-some-mario-games-just-cant-properly-be-played-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Some Mario Games Just Can&#8217;t Properly Be Played Anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/video_some_mario_games_just_cant_properly_be_played_anymore\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/video_some_mario_games_just_cant_properly_be_played_anymore\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/video_some_mario_games_just_cant_properly_be_played_anymore\/large.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"resize\" width=\"900\" height=\"507\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QiZ9AA6e-FU?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1\" type=\"text\/html\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\">[embedded content]<\/iframe> <\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Video games are a funny medium; one&#8217;s released, and about a year afterwards you&#8217;re not likely to be able to buy a brand new copy of it unless you&#8217;re very lucky or it gets a second run. As such they age, and in a time of online patches and internet servers being so integral it&#8217;s likely only going to get harder to play games properly once they&#8217;re retro.<\/p>\n<p>But of course, that&#8217;s already happened for some games, and Mario&#8217;s not safe from the proverbial reaper&#8217;s scythe. We&#8217;ve dug up five Mario games that you simply can&#8217;t play properly any more, or perhaps were never able to be played in their intended form. If you&#8217;re wondering, yes, the Satellaview does come into it; how could it not?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] Video games are a funny medium; one&#8217;s released, and about a year afterwards you&#8217;re not likely to be able to buy a brand new copy of it unless you&#8217;re very lucky or it gets a second run. As such they age, and in a time of online patches and internet servers being so [&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-20991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20991","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=20991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}