{"id":15467,"date":"2024-08-09T11:38:27","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T09:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/09\/how-to-recreate-the-best-paris-olympics-moments-with-retro-video-games\/"},"modified":"2024-08-09T11:38:27","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T09:38:27","slug":"how-to-recreate-the-best-paris-olympics-moments-with-retro-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/09\/how-to-recreate-the-best-paris-olympics-moments-with-retro-video-games\/","title":{"rendered":"How to recreate the best Paris Olympics moments with retro video games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lace up your simulators and waggle your joystick for gold, from Mario racing Sonic in the 200m freestyle or pole vaulting on a PlayStation<\/p>\n<p>Over the past three weeks the Paris Olympics have provided some spectacular sporting moments, from incredible victories to heartbreaking defeats to Snoop Dogg standing about in full equestrian regalia. For most of us, such sporting brilliance is way beyond reach \u2013 unless, that is, you have access to video games.<\/p>\n<p>Although there was no official tie-in this year, there have been many well-loved Olympic-inspired games over the past four decades. If you have an old Commodore 64, PlayStation or Wii, or a suitable emulator on your PC, here\u2019s how you can relive this summer\u2019s immortal sporting memories in the safety of your own home.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/article\/2024\/aug\/09\/how-to-recreate-the-best-paris-olympics-moments-with-retro-video-games\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/f1179f4bcbeaabd73e177ad82d2a3aa00cd77a9d\/0_103_3306_1983\/master\/3306.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=34fc3d329a41aa8ebdcc1d3e6032d892\" title=\"How to recreate the best Paris Olympics moments with retro video games\" \/>Lace up your simulators and waggle your joystick for gold, from Mario racing Sonic in the 200m freestyle or pole vaulting on a PlayStation<br \/>\nOver the past three weeks the Paris Olympics have provided some spectacular sporting moments, from incredible victories to heartbreaking defeats to Snoop Dogg standing about in full equestrian regalia. For most of us, such sporting brilliance is way beyond reach \u2013 unless, that is, you have access to video games.<br \/>\nAlthough there was no official tie-in this year, there have been many well-loved Olympic-inspired games over the past four decades. If you have an old Commodore 64, PlayStation or Wii, or a suitable emulator on your PC, here\u2019s how you can relive this summer\u2019s immortal sporting memories in the safety of your own home. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lace up your simulators and waggle your joystick for gold, from Mario racing Sonic in the 200m freestyle or pole vaulting on a PlayStation Over the past three weeks the Paris Olympics have provided some spectacular sporting moments, from incredible victories to heartbreaking defeats to Snoop Dogg standing about in full equestrian regalia. For most &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/09\/how-to-recreate-the-best-paris-olympics-moments-with-retro-video-games\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to recreate the best Paris Olympics moments with retro video games<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15467"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}