{"id":358,"date":"2024-10-13T21:04:16","date_gmt":"2024-10-13T20:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?page_id=358"},"modified":"2025-04-03T10:42:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T09:42:26","slug":"the-gaming-meerkat","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?page_id=358","title":{"rendered":"The Gaming Meerkat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-39.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-39.png 1024w, https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-39-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-39-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-39-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-39-350x350.png 350w, https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-39-120x120.png 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>All the screenshots on these pages are from my Nintendo Switch editions of these games, unless otherwise stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I was a cub, there was a Christmas that forever altered my entertainment pattern. My dad brought home a grey box, and plugged it into the TV. It had a pair of controllers, and the family took it in turns to play a game. That game was Super Mario Bros, and the grey box was a Nintendo Entertainment System.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From that moment on, I was a Nintendo fan. Alongside the Mario games, I would go on to experience the Zelda series, Pok\u00e9mon, Star Fox, and many other delights of the gaming world. I would also discover PC gaming, and encounter the likes of Doom, Master of Orion, X-COM, and much, much more. It is therefore only fitting that I devote a portion of Meerkat Musings to the games that I think have left behind legendary legacies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?page_id=2241\">The History of Nintendo<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?page_id=3149\">The Nintendo Switch 2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?page_id=359\">The Magic of Mario<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?page_id=360\">The Legend of Zelda<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?page_id=698\">Sonic&#8217;s Super Legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?page_id=1493\">Other Games<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the screenshots on these pages are from my Nintendo Switch editions of these games, unless otherwise stated. When I was a cub, there was a Christmas that forever altered my entertainment pattern. My&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-358","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3154,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/358\/revisions\/3154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}