{"id":59411,"date":"2013-12-31T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T17:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/?p=59411"},"modified":"2018-11-08T13:49:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T21:49:53","slug":"videogames-dec-29-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/videogames-dec-29-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Videogame Releases: Week of December 29th, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re so close to 2014 that no one bothered to make any new videogames to close out the old year. However, while 2013 concludes, the year of Luigi continues to bear fruit.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h5>Dr. Luigi (eShop for Wii U)<\/h5>\n<p>Ah, Nintendo\u2026 Just when you think the company might announce a huge game to help fill out its 2014 lineup, instead it gives us &#8216;Dr. Luigi&#8217; and &#8216;NES Remix&#8217; \u2013 both rehashes of past classics. That said, &#8216;Dr Luigi&#8217;, with its multiplayer crazy rules, has one thing going for it. Years ago, I was looking over a list of the most overt bootleg versions of famous videogames, and the one that really caught my eye was called &#8216;Mr. Mario&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/knZFneOkUqY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5>NES Remix (eShop for Wii U)<\/h5>\n<p>Ok, so this was a surprise release some two weeks ago, but it seems appropriate to put it here alongside &#8216;Dr. Luigi&#8217;. What&#8217;s crazy is how somebody at Nintendo (likely ranked below the person responsible for delaying &#8216;Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze&#8217;) caught onto the popular internet popular theme of remixing old 8-bit Nintendo games with different characters and challenges.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PUu5mGEcLFA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re so close to 2014 that no one bothered to make any new videogames to close out the old year. However, while 2013 concludes, the year of Luigi continues to bear fruit.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_excerpt -->","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":59413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[6521,224,31,225,4,3138],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59411"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59418,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59411\/revisions\/59418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}