{"id":2572,"date":"2016-03-31T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T16:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/?p=2572"},"modified":"2016-03-31T12:00:17","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T16:00:17","slug":"lord-of-the-rings-the-third-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2016\/03\/31\/lord-of-the-rings-the-third-age\/","title":{"rendered":"LORD OF THE RINGS: THE THIRD AGE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2573\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2016\/03\/31\/lord-of-the-rings-the-third-age\/lordoftheringsthirdagegamecube\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/lordoftheringsthirdagegamecube.jpg?fit=400%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"400,500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"lordoftheringsthirdagegamecube\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/lordoftheringsthirdagegamecube.jpg?fit=400%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2573\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/lordoftheringsthirdagegamecube.jpg?resize=400%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"lordoftheringsthirdagegamecube\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We never had a Nintendo GameCube, but our Wii is GameCube play-able, I picked up the above title at 2nd and Charles sometime last year, but didn&#8217;t have controllers, so later got them, then couldn&#8217;t find where I&#8217;d put the game, so time went on and OMG look there it is in the stack on my dresser, it blended in so well with movies: DVD, Blu-ray, UMD, LOL.<\/p>\n<p>So I ordered a Gamecube Memory card on Amazon and it should arrive in the mail today. Wii is setup with disc 1 in, controllers just awaiting the U. S. Mail.<\/p>\n<p>This is a game we played on PlayStation 2 back in the day. We don&#8217;t have a PlayStation 2 anymore, and none of our PS3&#8217;s are phatty&#8217;s so we haven&#8217;t been able to play it in a long time.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2574\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2016\/03\/31\/lord-of-the-rings-the-third-age\/lordoftheringsthirdageps2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/lordoftheringsthirdageps2.jpg?fit=400%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"400,500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"lordoftheringsthirdageps2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/lordoftheringsthirdageps2.jpg?fit=400%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2574\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/lordoftheringsthirdageps2.jpg?resize=400%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"lordoftheringsthirdageps2\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I really liked it, I never played any of the movie versions, just this odd side game just appealed to me (as does War in the North, which I still have to finish on PS3 (for all the trophies.) Of course I also bought the newest LoTR game on PS4, played it for 10 minutes and never played it again. [Made too many nemesis enemies right off. Maybe one day I&#8217;ll try it again.]<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow it just seems so unlikely that Lord of the Rings: The Third Age would ever get PS2 Classic status to be resold for PS3\/PS4 I mean, no way. It&#8217;s EA for one thing. Just forget it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We never had a Nintendo GameCube, but our Wii is GameCube play-able, I picked up the above title at 2nd and Charles sometime last year, but didn&#8217;t have controllers, so later got them, then couldn&#8217;t find where I&#8217;d put the game, so time went on and OMG look there it is in the stack on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"LORD OF THE RINGS: THE THIRD AGE","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[39],"tags":[1089,1087,1090,94,819,1088,80],"class_list":["post-2572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-gamecube","tag-lotr","tag-ps2","tag-ps3","tag-ps4","tag-the-third-age","tag-wii"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/lordoftheringsthirdagegamecube.jpg?fit=400%2C500&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2618,"url":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2016\/05\/28\/pixeljunk-monsters\/","url_meta":{"origin":2572,"position":0},"title":"PixelJunk Monsters","author":"Maisy","date":"Saturday, May 28, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"PixelJunk Monsters, my beloved. 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