{"id":4833,"date":"2022-02-22T15:40:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T14:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/22\/pushing-buttons-why-swathes-of-classic-games-are-at-risk-of-being-lost-forever\/"},"modified":"2022-02-22T15:40:20","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T14:40:20","slug":"pushing-buttons-why-swathes-of-classic-games-are-at-risk-of-being-lost-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/22\/pushing-buttons-why-swathes-of-classic-games-are-at-risk-of-being-lost-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"Pushing Buttons: why swathes of classic games are at risk of being lost forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this week\u2019s newsletter: Nintendo closing its Wii and 3DS digital storefronts is a reminder that it\u2019s become so much harder to replay, and introduce the next generation to, our old favourites<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/info\/ng-interactive\/2021\/nov\/24\/sign-up-for-pushing-buttons-keza-macdonalds-weekly-look-at-the-world-of-gaming\">Don\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Welcome to Pushing Buttons, the Guardian\u2019s gaming newsletter. If you\u2019d like to receive it in your inbox every week, just pop your email in below \u2013 and check your inbox (and spam) for the confirmation email.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Welcome back to Pushing Buttons! Apologies for the late arrival of today\u2019s newsletter; I was unexpectedly stranded with my family for several days last week because of Storm Eunice. Naturally this was the one time in the past five years that I have travelled without a Nintendo Switch, so I couldn\u2019t even turn this into an opportunity to introduce my five-year-old to Mario Kart, a parenting moment I have been looking forward to since he was born. Sadly the last couple of times I\u2019ve tried to introduce him to games have not gone well. The cute Mario Bros Game and Watch that Nintendo released a while back was thrown across the room in a rage after about 90 seconds (\u201cI HATE JUMPING!!!\u201d), and he disliked Pok\u00e9mon: Let\u2019s Go Pikachu so much that it will no for ever be known in our house as No No Pikachu.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2022\/feb\/22\/pushing-buttons-retro-games-nintendo\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/1194258f37d1f9ac384f7dc49284e1e9ad79aa88\/0_117_3500_2102\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=b37e0281138527fbeb0e08b09abf833e\" title=\"Pushing Buttons: why swathes of classic games are at risk of being lost forever\" \/>In this week\u2019s newsletter: Nintendo closing its Wii and 3DS digital storefronts is a reminder that it\u2019s become so much harder to replay, and introduce the next generation to, our old favourites<br \/>\nDon\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here<br \/>\nWelcome to Pushing Buttons, the Guardian\u2019s gaming newsletter. If you\u2019d like to receive it in your inbox every week, just pop your email in below \u2013 and check your inbox (and spam) for the confirmation email.<br \/>\nWelcome back to Pushing Buttons! Apologies for the late arrival of today\u2019s newsletter; I was unexpectedly stranded with my family for several days last week because of Storm Eunice. Naturally this was the one time in the past five years that I have travelled without a Nintendo Switch, so I couldn\u2019t even turn this into an opportunity to introduce my five-year-old to Mario Kart, a parenting moment I have been looking forward to since he was born. Sadly the last couple of times I\u2019ve tried to introduce him to games have not gone well. The cute Mario Bros Game and Watch that Nintendo released a while back was thrown across the room in a rage after about 90 seconds (\u201cI HATE JUMPING!!!\u201d), and he disliked Pok\u00e9mon: Let\u2019s Go Pikachu so much that it will no for ever be known in our house as No No Pikachu. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week\u2019s newsletter: Nintendo closing its Wii and 3DS digital storefronts is a reminder that it\u2019s become so much harder to replay, and introduce the next generation to, our old favourites Don\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Welcome to Pushing Buttons, the Guardian\u2019s gaming newsletter. If you\u2019d like to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/22\/pushing-buttons-why-swathes-of-classic-games-are-at-risk-of-being-lost-forever\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pushing Buttons: why swathes of classic games are at risk of being lost forever<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4834,"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\/4833"}],"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=4833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}