{"id":971,"date":"2012-05-02T12:17:56","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T16:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=971"},"modified":"2012-05-02T12:17:56","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T16:17:56","slug":"retrogaming-super-mario-bros-crossover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=971","title":{"rendered":"Retrogaming &#8211; Super Mario Bros. Crossover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/supermariobroscrossover_190x300.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-972\" title=\"supermariobroscrossover_190x300\" src=\"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/supermariobroscrossover_190x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>By all that is holy, go and play <a href=\"http:\/\/www.explodingrabbit.com\/games\/super-mario-bros-crossover\">this <\/a>game. It&#8217;s Super Mario Brothers, but featuring a cast of NES greats. Play as Samus, Simon Belmont, Mega Man, the dudes from Contra etc.<\/p>\n<p>Cool idea, right? Run around the Mushroom Kingdom as various characters. Maybe a ten minute thing, right? Once the nostalgia is over?<\/p>\n<p>Nope. I settled in and played this thing to death over several nights. Here&#8217;s what keeps you coming back:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Choose<\/strong>. Will the screw attack work better than the spread gun here? What if I just scale the wall and get above everything? The characters have their strengths, and picking the right hero for the task makes for some cool gameplay.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gear Up<\/strong>. Forget the Fire Flower. In place of the existing powerups have been left the various weapons of each character for your discovery and use. Double boomerang? Yes please.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cheat.<\/strong> Nevermind the whole &#8216;achievements to show off to your friends&#8217; thing. How abotu achievements which unlock new ways to play? Cheats which can be used to make the game easier, and unlock more cheats?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This game was definitely built by people who love games and know how to make them replayable. So go check it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By all that is holy, go and play this game. It&#8217;s Super Mario Brothers, but featuring a cast of NES greats. Play as Samus, Simon Belmont, Mega Man, the dudes from Contra etc. Cool idea, right? Run around the Mushroom Kingdom as various characters. Maybe a ten minute thing, right? Once the nostalgia is over? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retrogaming","category-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":973,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions\/973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}