{"id":156,"date":"2010-03-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/?p=156"},"modified":"2010-03-14T22:02:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T03:02:06","slug":"03152010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/?p=156","title":{"rendered":"Yes, The Wizard was a life-changing movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_158\" style=\"width: 281px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/The-Wizard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-158\" class=\"size-full wp-image-158 \" title=\"The Wizard\" src=\"http:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/The-Wizard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"271\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/The-Wizard.jpg 339w, https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/The-Wizard-211x300.jpg 211w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 271px) 100vw, 271px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-158\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Check out that Nintendo Power Glove on Fred Savage!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For some people of a certain generation, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Wizard<\/span>, staring Fred Savage, was a life-changing movie. While the story is fairly unbelievable by anyone but a kid under the age of twelve in 1989, those same kids had the dream presented to them that they could have grand \u00a0cross-country adventures based solely on their Nintendo skills. I mean, I had <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ninja Gaiden<\/span>, and I played <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Rad Racer<\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles<\/span>. Who says I couldn&#8217;t win $50,000 by playing these games?<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, this movie made every kid want a Nintendo Power Glove, and the fact that it was pretty much an hour and a half sneak peak at the new <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Super Mario Bros. 3<\/span>, made every kid want that game more than anything. It&#8217;s no wonder <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Super Mario Bros. 3<\/span> is one of the best selling video games of al time. Looking back, I don&#8217;t understand why video game companies don&#8217;t produce this same story every four or five years to each new generation of kids, but plug in their newest innovative game to try to boost game sales. Honestly, I don&#8217;t feel like Fred Savage, Beau Bridges, and Christian Slater are doing much else these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some people of a certain generation, The Wizard, staring Fred Savage, was a life-changing movie. While the story is fairly unbelievable by anyone but a kid under the age of twelve in 1989, those same kids had the dream[&hellip;]<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/?p=156\">&darr; Read the rest of this entry&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comic","uentry","postonpage-1","odd","post-author-admin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}