{"id":42,"date":"2008-03-08T12:30:54","date_gmt":"2008-03-08T17:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/?p=42"},"modified":"2011-01-30T14:31:05","modified_gmt":"2011-01-30T19:31:05","slug":"dear-super-smash-bros-brawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/2008\/03\/08\/dear-super-smash-bros-brawl\/","title":{"rendered":"dear super smash bros brawl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-533\" title=\"lucas\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/lucas.jpg\" alt=\"lucas\" width=\"231\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/lucas.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/lucas-216x300.jpg 216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smashbros.com\/en_us\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Super Smash Bros Brawl<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p>You come out tonight at midnight.  After an initial December launch date, then a delay to February, and then another delay until March 9, the day has finally arrived where we will finally meet.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since I bought my Wii in 2007, I have been waiting for today.  All I&#8217;m saying is that you better be the most awesome game ever.  The last time I was this excited about getting a video game, it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamefaqs.com\/console\/nes\/image\/587766.html?box=39867\" target=\"_blank\">Where In Time Is Carmen Sandiego<\/a> for the NES.  And that game came with a desk encyclopedia which you used to help beat it.  True story: I still have that Encyclopedia.<\/p>\n<p>My pre-launch pick for favorite character is going to have to be Lucas.  I&#8217;ve sworn by Ness for years, but given everything I&#8217;ve read and seen (yes, I enjoy perusing various video game websites) Lucas is my initial pick.<\/p>\n<p>Nerd Alert Approaching!  GameStop is hosting the start of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamestop.com\/gs\/ssbb\/tournament\/default.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Brawl tournaments<\/a> this afternoon.  Basically, you go to a store and fight it out in 1-minute KO matches in a single-elimination bracket until there&#8217;s a store winner.  Then you go one of 271 district sites the next weekend and if you win that, a regional competition two weeks after.  If you&#8217;re still alive, you get an all expense trip to San Diego to compete in the finals.  Round 1 recap will be forthcoming this evening.<\/p>\n<p>Corey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Super Smash Bros Brawl, You come out tonight at midnight. After an initial December launch date, then a delay to February, and then another delay until March 9, the day has finally arrived where we will finally meet. Ever since I bought my Wii in 2007, I have been waiting for today. All I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-games","tag-smash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019,"href":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/1019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}