{"id":6432,"date":"2017-11-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/11\/rumour_super_mario_cereal_is_on_the_way_with_an_amiibo_box"},"modified":"2017-11-28T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T12:00:00","slug":"rumour-super-mario-cereal-is-on-the-way-with-an-amiibo-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/11\/28\/rumour-super-mario-cereal-is-on-the-way-with-an-amiibo-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumour: Super Mario Cereal is On the Way With an &#8216;amiibo&#8217; Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the late &#8217;80s and early &#8217;90s Nintendo had an iron grip on gaming culture, and merchandised the heck out of it &#8211; that was especially the case in North America. There were lunchboxes, official magazines, loads of console accessories and, of course, cereal.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content] <\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Those days have been gone for a long time, to varying degrees, though Nintendo is in the midst of a big push to regain its foothold in popular culture. There&#8217;s buzz around the Switch, theme park attractions are being built, and there may even be a movie; now, it seems, the company is heading back into the cereal game.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cerealously.net\/rumor-mill-kelloggs-super-mario-cereal\/\">cerealously.net<\/a> (nice one) Kellogg&#8217;s is getting ready to release &#8216;Super Mario Cereal&#8217;, a berry mix with marshmallows. Though it&#8217;s apparently not the final box art, it seems to suggest that the box (or at least one version of it) would have a small NFC chip in order for it to function as an amiibo.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>One of the Cerealously readers has apparently had this confirmed by Kellogg&#8217;s, though we can only take their word for it until confirmation comes along.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see whether this is real or not very soon, we suspect. Would you start your day with Super Mario Cereal?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the late &#8217;80s and early &#8217;90s Nintendo had an iron grip on gaming culture, and merchandised the heck out of it &#8211; that was especially the case in North America. There were lunchboxes, official magazines, loads of console accessories and, of course, cereal. [embedded content] Those days have been gone for a long time, [&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-6432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6432","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=6432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}