{"id":673,"date":"2025-01-24T15:21:37","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T19:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/?p=673"},"modified":"2025-01-24T15:21:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T19:21:37","slug":"marble-madness-was-better-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/24\/marble-madness-was-better-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Marble Madness was better at home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Reading Marc Normandin&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/retroxp.beehiiv.com\/p\/xp-arcade-marble-madness\">Marble Madness retrospective<\/a> got me thinking about NES ports that were better than their arcade counterparts. And that led me to a blog called Nerdy Pleasures that <a href=\"https:\/\/nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com\/2015\/06\/nes-versions-that-are-better-than.html\">has a pretty good list of them<\/a>, categorized in various ways. I was always blind to this as a kid because the arcade versions looked and sounded so much more impressive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(That said, I always thought Marble Madness played better and looked more vibrant at home, and I never missed the trackball.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Marc Normandin&#8217;s Marble Madness retrospective got me thinking about NES ports that were better than their arcade counterparts. And that led me to a blog called Nerdy Pleasures that has a pretty good list of them, categorized in various ways. I was always blind to this as a kid because the arcade versions looked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","iawp_total_views":18,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-gaming","h-entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":674,"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions\/674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}