{"id":1199690,"date":"2023-11-05T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1199690"},"modified":"2023-11-05T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-05T15:30:00","slug":"38-years-ago-nintendo-changed-pop-culture-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1199690","title":{"rendered":"38 Years Ago, Nintendo Changed Pop Culture Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/764e485996ab654d23d2fe33c837de28.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At the start of the 1980s, video games were mostly relegated to coin-gobbling arcade machines, but their surging popularity prompted a <a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 lcFFec js_link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/decafjedi\/status\/1240396026516852736\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Time Magazine cover story<\/a> in January 1982 with a cringeworthy warning: \u201cGRONK! FLASH! ZAP! Video Games are Blitzing the World!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/nintendo-nes-38-anniversary-1850990829\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Kotaku &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/nintendo-nes-38-anniversary-1850990829\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">38 Years Ago, Nintendo Changed Pop Culture Forever<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the start of the 1980s, video games were mostly relegated to coin-gobbling arcade machines, but their surging popularity prompted a Time Magazine cover story in January 1982 with a cringeworthy warning: \u201cGRONK! FLASH! ZAP! Video Games are Blitzing the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1199690\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1199691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,110],"tags":[88],"class_list":["post-1199690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kotaku","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-kotaku"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1199690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1199691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1199690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1199690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1199690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}