{"id":408,"date":"2022-05-18T09:19:46","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T09:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/uncategorized\/segas-original-mascot-wasnt-sonic-or-even-alex-kidd\/"},"modified":"2022-05-18T09:19:47","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T09:19:47","slug":"segas-original-mascot-wasnt-sonic-or-even-alex-kidd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/game-news\/segas-original-mascot-wasnt-sonic-or-even-alex-kidd\/","title":{"rendered":"SEGA\u2019s Original Mascot Wasn\u2019t Sonic Or Even Alex Kidd"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I\u2019m not sure whether it\u2019s an age thing or more a comment on a shortage of absolutely essential new games in 2022 so far (before you talk to me about Elden Ring<\/em><\/a>, I\u2019ve played some of it, I see its qualities, but it\u2019s not really my thing), but I\u2019ve been playing a lot more old games of late. Retro<\/em> games, you might say, not that it\u2019s especially clear where the line between modern and retro rests right now (more on that on these pages, soon). I\u2019ve spent what games budget I allow myself on new-to-me carts for the SEGA<\/a> Mega Drive and Nintendo<\/a> Game Boy, and at the end of April I reacquired an 8-bit SEGA Master System, reconnecting with the one games console I ever sold as a kid.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m not sure whether it\u2019s an age thing or more a comment on a shortage of absolutely essential new games in 2022 so far (before you talk to me about Elden Ring, I\u2019ve played some of it, I see its qualities, but it\u2019s not really my thing), but I\u2019ve been playing a lot more old […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions\/410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}