{"id":164,"date":"2011-09-16T11:52:17","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T11:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/?p=164"},"modified":"2012-09-25T12:17:55","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T12:17:55","slug":"good-news-bad-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/?p=164","title":{"rendered":"Good news, bad news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found all of my old video game magazines!\u00a0 I am super pumped about this!\u00a0 The only problem is that they&#8217;re buried behind a ton of other boxes and mattresses, and it&#8217;ll take some effort to get to them.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m hoping the aforementioned picture of the NES Game Boy converter can be found&#8230;\u00a0 so long as I didn&#8217;t burn the <em>GamePro<\/em> issue it was in.<\/p>\n<p>We had a wood stove in our house, and not knowing where to put my alarmingly huge magazine collection as it grew, I *may* have burned a few issues of <em>Nintendo Power<\/em>.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think I recall burning any <em>EGM<\/em>&#8216;s or anything else, but you never know.\u00a0 If I were to go back and talk to my 12 year old self, I&#8217;d give him an earful!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Listen, Andr\u00e9&#8230;\u00a0 why throw these out?\u00a0 You&#8217;re eventually going to have a blog to laugh at all this stuff, and it would be awesome just to go back and check these out for nostalgia purposes.\u00a0 And for goodness sake, KEEP THE BOXES YOUR GAMES COME IN.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not just packaging.\u00a0 GOD.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found all of my old video game magazines!\u00a0 I am super pumped about this!\u00a0 The only problem is that they&#8217;re buried behind a ton of other boxes and mattresses, and it&#8217;ll take some effort to get to&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/?p=164\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1147,"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/1147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}