{"id":8911,"date":"2022-10-22T13:23:02","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T13:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/22\/soapbox-ea-playground-is-a-forgotten-gem-and-deserves-to-be-remembered-with-wii-sports\/"},"modified":"2022-10-22T13:23:02","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T13:23:02","slug":"soapbox-ea-playground-is-a-forgotten-gem-and-deserves-to-be-remembered-with-wii-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/22\/soapbox-ea-playground-is-a-forgotten-gem-and-deserves-to-be-remembered-with-wii-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Soapbox: EA Playground Is A Forgotten Gem And Deserves To Be Remembered With Wii Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Playing games in the uncanny valley.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they&#8217;ve been chewing over. Today, on its 15-year anniversary, Jim pleads the case for a forgotten Wii classic&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If there\u2019s one thing that you could always rely on the Wii to achieve, it was family-friendly multiplayer. Gone were the days of explaining to an elderly relative what various triggers and button combinations did, instead it was a case of swapping out your grandma\u2019s sherry with a plastic white rectangle, standing her in front of the screen watching her beat seven shades of hoo-ha out of an animated opponent in the boxing ring.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/soapbox-ea-playground-is-a-forgotten-gem-and-deserves-to-be-remembered-with-wii-sports\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Soapbox: EA Playground Is A Forgotten Gem And Deserves To Be Remembered With Wii Sports<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Playing games in the uncanny valley.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they&#8217;ve been chewing over. Today, on its 15-year anniversary, Jim pleads the case for a forgotten Wii classic&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If there\u2019s one thing that you could always rely on the Wii to achieve, it was family-friendly multiplayer. Gone were the days of explaining to an elderly relative what various triggers and button combinations did, instead it was a case of swapping out your grandma\u2019s sherry with a plastic white rectangle, standing her in front of the screen watching her beat seven shades of hoo-ha out of an animated opponent in the boxing ring.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/soapbox-ea-playground-is-a-forgotten-gem-and-deserves-to-be-remembered-with-wii-sports\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8912,"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\/8911"}],"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=8911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}