{"id":3045,"date":"2022-07-02T17:36:18","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T17:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/02\/feature-13-best-seniors-in-games\/"},"modified":"2022-07-02T17:36:18","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T17:36:18","slug":"feature-13-best-seniors-in-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/02\/feature-13-best-seniors-in-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Feature: 13 Best Seniors In Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>These oldies are very goodies.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Think of a game in which you control a character (so no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gameboy\/tetris\">Tetris<\/a> or anything) \u2014 go ahead, any game! Now, chances are, whichever game you&#8217;ve picked, its protagonist is either young or, at the most, middle-aged. You&#8217;ve got the likes of Link, Mario, Samus, Cloud, Joker, Neku, Scott Pilgrim&#8230; We could go on, but you get the idea.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a shame that senior characters (which we&#8217;ll loosely define here as a person who&#8217;s around retirement age or older) aren&#8217;t represented more in gaming; after all, Nintendo&#8217;s remarkable ability to create games suitable for all ages means that people like Audie (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/01\/random-animal-crossing-grandma-audie-turns-90-and-gets-tons-of-acnh-gifts\">A.K.A the &#8216;Animal Crossing Grandma&#8217;<\/a>) enjoy gaming into their 90s and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/13-best-seniors-in-games\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Feature: 13 Best Seniors In Games<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>These oldies are very goodies.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Think of a game in which you control a character (so no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gameboy\/tetris\">Tetris<\/a> or anything) \u2014 go ahead, any game! Now, chances are, whichever game you&#8217;ve picked, its protagonist is either young or, at the most, middle-aged. You&#8217;ve got the likes of Link, Mario, Samus, Cloud, Joker, Neku, Scott Pilgrim&#8230; We could go on, but you get the idea.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a shame that senior characters (which we&#8217;ll loosely define here as a person who&#8217;s around retirement age or older) aren&#8217;t represented more in gaming; after all, Nintendo&#8217;s remarkable ability to create games suitable for all ages means that people like Audie (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/01\/random-animal-crossing-grandma-audie-turns-90-and-gets-tons-of-acnh-gifts\">A.K.A the &#8216;Animal Crossing Grandma&#8217;<\/a>) enjoy gaming into their 90s and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/13-best-seniors-in-games\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3045"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}