{"id":70397,"date":"2018-12-21T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/12\/nintendo_fan_group_spreads_the_christmas_cheer_by_replacing_local_boys_lost_switch_console"},"modified":"2018-12-21T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T11:00:00","slug":"nintendo-fan-group-spreads-the-christmas-cheer-by-replacing-local-boys-lost-switch-console","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/12\/21\/nintendo-fan-group-spreads-the-christmas-cheer-by-replacing-local-boys-lost-switch-console\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Fan Group Spreads The Christmas Cheer By Replacing Local Boy&#8217;s Lost Switch Console"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d49c82729fc52\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d49c82729fc52\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"mariochristmasnl\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d49c82729fc52\/mariochristmasnl.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d49c82729fc52\/mariochristmasnl.900x.jpg\" alt=\"mariochristmasnl\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Whereas yesterday brought with it the story of one person <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/12\/random_ups_delivery_driver_caught_stealing_nintendo_switch_pro_controller_on_video\">stealing a Nintendo Switch Pro Controller<\/a>, today gives us a story of a wonderful Switch-giving gesture, hopefully restoring balance to the world and certainly restoring our faith in humanity.<\/p>\n<p>Just last week, eight-year-old Arthur Millichamp of Mapperly in Nottingham, UK, was travelling back home in a taxi with his Nintendo Switch. Sadly, five minutes after the journey, he realised that he&#8217;d accidentally left his Switch in the back of the car; his mother eventually managed to get in touch with the driver of the taxi the following day, but the console was nowhere to be seen.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Arthur posing for Nottingham Post\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d068de7a95f3a\/arthur-posing-for-nottingham-post.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d068de7a95f3a\/arthur-posing-for-nottingham-post.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Arthur posing for Nottingham Post\" \/><\/a><span class=\"image-credit\" title=\"Image Credit\">Nottingham Post \/James Turner<\/span><\/div><figcaption class=\"caption\">Arthur posing for Nottingham Post<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Luckily, help was on its way. Tony Stephenson, founder of Nintendo fan-group Nintendo Nottingham (and good friend of Nintendo Life, we might add) saw an article about the story on a local news website. Speaking to <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nottinghampost.com\/news\/local-news\/family-over-moon-gaming-group-2350152\">Nottinghamshire Live<\/a>, Tony said, &#8220;I saw the article and thought we could try and help in some way. We have a spare Nintendo Switch that isn&#8217;t being used so some of us had a chat at the group and we decided to give it to Arthur.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The generosity didn&#8217;t stop there, however, as the group also put in the effort to replace the five games that also went missing with the console including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_mario_party\"><strong>Super Mario Party<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_kart_8_deluxe\"><strong>Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/strong><\/a>, and more. <em>Wonderful stuff<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>We do love a good festive, feel-good story every now and then. Nice work, Nintendo Nottingham!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whereas yesterday brought with it the story of one person stealing a Nintendo Switch Pro Controller, today gives us a story of a wonderful Switch-giving gesture, hopefully restoring balance to the world and certainly restoring our faith in humanity. Just last week, eight-year-old Arthur Millichamp of Mapperly in Nottingham, UK, was travelling back home in [&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-70397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70397","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=70397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}