{"id":2422,"date":"2009-07-02T06:33:07","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T11:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=2422"},"modified":"2009-07-02T06:33:07","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T11:33:07","slug":"on-super-mario-as-never-seen-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2422","title":{"rendered":"On Super Mario, As Never Seen Before"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Nintendo generation passed me by.<\/p>\n

It didn’t make me cry. It certainly didn’t make me blue. But when my friends had the Nintendo Entertainment System, I didn’t. I didn’t really even care. That rectangular controller? All those buttons? It made no sense<\/i> to me.<\/p>\n

So, the whole appeal of Mario? I don’t get it. I just don’t.<\/p>\n

Yes, this made working for EB Games for so long a little strange. I knew the history, and I could talk the history like I’d been a game-nerd my entire life. I could even fake the excitement of knowing the Konami cheat code. (Don’t ask me about it now; I couldn’t remember it if I tried<\/i>.)<\/p>\n

Games just weren’t my bag.<\/p>\n

However.<\/p>\n

When I see something like this<\/i>, I just have<\/i> to applaud.<\/p>\n

A kid took a Theremin. And he turned it into a Nintendo controller.<\/p>\n

A Theremin! That “instrument” that made “music,” the weird, spooky “Oooo”s that were common to B-movies of the 1950s and Mars Attacks!<\/i> and Destroy All Humans!<\/i> A Theremin!<\/p>\n

Watch!<\/p>\n

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On the one hand, he has too much time on his hands. On the other hand, he’s a friggin’ genius<\/i>.<\/p>\n

A Theremin!<\/p>\n

If only it still made music. I’d have loved to hear a Theremin soundtrack to Mario battling the mushrooms. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Nintendo generation passed me by. It didn’t make me cry. It certainly didn’t make me blue. But when my friends had the Nintendo Entertainment System, I didn’t. I didn’t really even care. That rectangular controller? All those buttons? It made no sense to me. So, the whole appeal of Mario? I don’t get it.Continue reading “On Super Mario, As Never Seen Before”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[228,4091],"class_list":["post-2422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-games","tag-eb-games","tag-video-games","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}