{"id":704,"date":"2025-04-14T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/?p=704"},"modified":"2025-04-15T16:01:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T16:01:56","slug":"opinion-its-been-20-years-since-i-was-this-excited-for-a-mario-kart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/opinion-its-been-20-years-since-i-was-this-excited-for-a-mario-kart\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: It&#039;s Been 20 Years Since I Was This Excited For A Mario Kart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Double dash it all.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a busy couple of weeks in the Nintendoverse, and we&#8217;re all a bit excited around these parts. Despite some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/opinion-a-few-too-many-questions-and-unwelcome-surprises-are-taking-the-shine-off-the-switch-2-reveal\">bumps in the road<\/a> around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/04\/drop-the-price-scream-nintendo-fans-during-nintendos-treehouse-live-broadcast\">pricing<\/a>, if you look past all the noise and the Nintendo-like messaging that can present more questions than it answers, the software looks <em>per-itty<\/em> good.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, for multiplatform gamers who&#8217;ve already had their fill of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/elden-ring-tarnished-edition\">Elden Ring<\/a>s, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/cyberpunk-2077-ultimate-edition\">Cyberpunk<\/a>s, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/street-fighter-vi-years-1-2-fighters-edition\">Street Fighter<\/a>s, Switch 2&#8217;s 2025 lineup won&#8217;t hit quite the same. And although Nintendo&#8217;s own slate is fairly slim at launch, it&#8217;s managed to turn the head of an old karting curmudgeon with a launch game that has me genuinely excited \u2014 with the tingles and everything \u2014 to play a new <strong>Mario Kart<\/strong>, something I honestly thought was beyond me at this point.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/opinion-its-been-20-years-since-i-was-this-excited-for-a-mario-kart\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Double dash it all. It&#8217;s been a busy couple of weeks in the Nintendoverse, and we&#8217;re all a bit excited around these parts. Despite some bumps in the road around pricing, if you look past all the noise and the Nintendo-like messaging that can present more questions than it answers, the software looks per-itty good. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":705,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions\/705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}