{"id":1243,"date":"2008-07-23T06:43:14","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T10:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/07\/23\/virtual-goodness\/"},"modified":"2008-07-23T06:43:14","modified_gmt":"2008-07-23T10:43:14","slug":"virtual-goodness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/07\/23\/virtual-goodness\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual goodness."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/cgblog\/images\/videogames\/nes\/super_mario_bros.png\" alt=\"Super Mario Bros.\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" \/>My kids think it is funny that I put a parental control pin lock on their Wii, but there is no way I could leave them to their own devices with Nintendo\u2019s online store.<\/p>\n<p>Until last weekend I had not taken advantage of any of the virtual console games, but as a reward for the kids, I purchased Super Mario Bros. and Kirby.  It is funny how much the kids love the classic NES games; Mario games have to be among their favorites.<\/p>\n<p>I have stayed away from virtual console games because of their limitless possibilities, and addictive qualities.  It is easy to start burning money on Nintendo\u2019s back catalog of games.  I may have to get my wife to change the parental control pin.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My kids think it is funny that I put a parental control pin lock on their Wii, but there is no way I could leave them to their own devices with Nintendo\u2019s online store. Until last weekend I had not taken advantage of any of the virtual console games, but as a reward for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/07\/23\/virtual-goodness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Virtual goodness.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}