WEBVTT - Episode 8: Intro To Nintendo 0:00:08.440 --> 0:00:12.800 Hey, everybody, welcome to Nerd is the scent it co 0:00:12.960 --> 0:00:17.000 host man with the most ready to boast, always trying 0:00:17.040 --> 0:00:21.880 to toast Iffy Watty way. It's across from me, Danny Fernandez, 0:00:22.520 --> 0:00:26.560 the girl with the pearl and the earl who's always 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:34.120 trying to hurl after I don't even know anymore every pearl. 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:38.559 Hang on, what are wait? When we bring up my 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:44.239 rhymes with have you ever used that like website? I 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:47.159 definitely have. Yeah, I forgot that's because you used to 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:52.839 be in your um you're like underground wrapping days. Oh yeah, No, 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:54.920 I didn't use the site. Then I used it like 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:56.880 I had a submission where I had to like write 0:00:56.920 --> 0:01:00.800 a song for a show and I definitely used rhymes 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:04.080 with for that. And I was like, okay, this part 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:08.880 of the podcast sponsored by rhymes with rhymes with, and 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:10.720 I wrote it down as to check in with a 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:14.120 site and see if we can get a sponsorship. So 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:18.759 today we're talking about something that synonymous with video games. 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:21.440 I think you know is the you say it? Everyone 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:24.720 knows it. Before there was PS four's and xboxes, there 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:27.480 has always been Nintendo and as a matter of fact, 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:30.800 black mombs all over the nation still call PS four 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:35.160 an xbox on that Nintendo. We need to get off 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:42.400 that Nintendo. Nintendo. Yeah, it's it's you know, I'm excited 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:44.280 about this episode, and as I have to do as 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:48.760 a precursor for every general episode before y'all flood our 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:51.960 t l S with your opinions, this is just a 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:55.480 general general discussion about Nintendo as a whole. We will 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:59.800 zero in on the Super Mario's, the Metroids, the Star Foxes, 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:04.880 Smash Bros, the Zelda's, all of them at a later date, 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:08.040 but this is just Nintendo in general, its history. And 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:11.240 then we'll have a guest on later this episode who 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:14.120 has actually worked with Nintendo and we can talk about that. 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:17.520 But first we're gonna start this off. How we start off, 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:20.880 you know every episode with wait, IFFI, what was your 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:24.400 first introduction to Nintendo? Oh, you're starting off with a 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:28.679 spicy question. My first introduction to Nintendo was the Nintendo 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:31.639 Entertainment System, which was the NES. My dad had it, 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:36.840 and I remember we had Duck Hunt in the Mario 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:39.760 game and I only played Duck Hunt, and I played 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:41.880 it the dumb way all kids my age played it, 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:44.960 which is pressing the gun up against the screen and 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:48.120 like thinking that that helped it when it didn't, because 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:51.359 it's about you know, a camera inside the gun that 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:55.679 captures the whole that you know, it's it's all signs. Yeah, 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:59.959 I guess that would be mine. But also game Boy 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:03.680 game Boy for sure. I used to play my brothers. 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:09.639 That was Fernanda's family road trip necessary component. I think 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:11.840 we might have he you know. So my brother was 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:14.600 about eighteen months older than me, and he got all 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:18.720 of the consoles and gaming systems and everything, so it 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:20.880 was essentially whenever he got tired of it that I 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:24.560 was able to scoop it up. Yeah, that's dope. And 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:30.360 was it the original grade? Yeah, okay, I've touched a 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:32.919 few of those early on, but I never owned one. 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:35.000 The first one my parents got me was actually the 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:40.440 game Boy Color. That was a big deal. Yeah, So 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:42.840 I was rocking that for a bit and I had Pokemon. 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:44.800 I lost it and it didn't come back in the 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:48.040 game Boy game until the Game Boy advanced. And I 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:49.840 just got to say with the game Boy because I 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:51.960 know when we moved on to uh, which we'll get 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:55.360 into N sixty four and everyone always jokes about or 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:57.600 or the original N s but like, yeah, blowing in 0:03:57.640 --> 0:03:59.840 the cartridge and stuff. But I just remember that so 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:02.800 much with Game Boy that I'm sure there's a bunch 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:05.640 of our old games just filled with my spit and 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:14.440 that that down to blow my my five year old cocaine. Um. 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:17.720 But yeah, yeah, those were so well, yeah, let's get 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:21.680 into it. That was my introduction though. Yeah, I can't 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:26.360 even I'm trying to remember Tetris. For sure, Super Mario, 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:29.720 which I was very good at all I got good 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:32.760 at I felt that that was my favorite. Um, Tetris. 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:35.720 I still I don't know. Did you know that Mark 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:39.560 ellis who was on our our Infinity War podcast, He 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:42.680 is obsessed with Tetris, like he considers himself one of 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:45.159 the best Tetris players. It is one of one of 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:47.840 his favorite games that he would always play to like 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:50.200 wine down or so he plays it every single night 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:53.360 really on a game Boy. Well, you know, you just 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:55.320 opened up a challenge because I'm sure we got some 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:59.080 Tetris pros that listening. Oh he's the best. Alright, alright, 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:01.040 well let me send him the score, so feel free 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:06.240 to tweet at market all scores. He probably gets super competitive. 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:10.960 I mean he plays it every night and not funny, 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:17.120 you see, how to find that to be calming in anyway? 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:20.280 You're like so especially here in l A, you're like 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:23.200 stuck in these in your little box car, like like 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:25.359 moving with other cars and trying to get across and 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:27.120 like you're just stuck in traffic and you get home 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:30.400 and then you're like trying to sort these other boxes 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:37.560 into oh too much anxiety. Yeah, um, anyways, it was great. Well, yeah, 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:40.679 let's let's let's hop down to deep Dive, which you 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:44.120 start off at the very very early beginnings of Nintendo, 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:46.839 which I've learned a few years back, which blew me 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:50.200 away because if you had to just guess off off 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:52.320 the top of your don when would you assume that 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:55.680 Nintendo was started? Probably the eighties, Yeah, that's that's what 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:58.440 I always assumed, But it was actually in the eighties, 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:03.839 of the eight hundreds of l eight the yeah, eighteen 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:07.600 eighty nine is when Fusa Giro Yamaguchi founded a small 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:13.080 company named Nintendo Pie to manufacturer hanafudo, which were flower cards, 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:17.360 a type of Japanese gambling cards. Uh and the word 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:22.200 Nintendo roughly translates to luck, heaven hall, or a place 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:24.520 where your fortune is placed. In the hands of gods, 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:29.760 so it's basically gambling. Nintendo is a gamble. Uh. But 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:33.120 business boom for many decades, and Nintendo is still one 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:35.839 of the top hand of food and manufacturers in the world. 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:38.360 Which if you if you if that's your game, if 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:40.440 you're like, oh, man, which if that's your game? You 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:43.640 probably know since they're one of the top manufacturers in 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:48.200 the world. But when Yama when Yamauchi's grandson Hiroshi, took 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:50.920 over in nineteen fifty six, he began looking for ways 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:54.880 to diversify the company's revenue streams. So the younger Yamauchi 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:57.719 tried his hand at some pretty outside the box businesses. 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:03.039 There were instant rice packets, love hotel, Oh yeah, oh yeah, 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:07.239 yeah yeah, I love hotel. Yeah, catering to amorous couple. 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:09.240 That doesn't sound like a thing that a couple would do. 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:11.840 Are you trying to go to the Nintendo hotel? I 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:13.920 don't know. I mean, like that sounds like something that 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:15.720 two adults would do, but I don't know if they 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:19.000 would be couples. It sounds like something that someone who 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:21.720 is already in a relationship would do with someone who's 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:25.920 not in a relationship. At the Love Hotel, Don't Tell 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:30.160 My Wife, and then a taxi cab company and other missteps, 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:32.320 and then he finally found Nintendo's new niche in the 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:36.440 late sixties, gaining a foothold in Japan's electronic toys market. 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:39.920 When Hiroshi saw the incredible success of the home computer 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:42.720 and arcade company Atari in the nineteen seventies, he set 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:45.600 his sights on the video game market, and in nine five, 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:48.480 Nintendo developed the e v R Race, which is the 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:52.760 first ever video game VR was a betting simulator. Yeah, 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:55.040 so it was so they're pretty much still in that 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:57.680 betting type of like you said, um. E v R 0:07:57.800 --> 0:08:03.040 Race was extremely large, so six players could participate in it. 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:06.160 It was a game where horses horses would race on 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:09.320 the screen and then the players were required to predict 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:13.880 which horse would win, so literally betting but in the 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:16.560 comfort of your of your own home with this huge, 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:22.840 essentially simulator. The game was really complicated, so after Nintendo 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:26.760 released it, they kind of had a hard time maintaining it. 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:29.200 And there are also a lot of breakdowns which people 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:32.160 never really talk about. In the early arcade UM and 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:34.320 video game industries that the you know, a lot of 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:37.280 arcades and games like this would break down often, and 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:42.040 so basically because of this, they quickly realized how difficult 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:45.439 it was to actually maintain these arcade games. You know, before, 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:47.800 I feel like a few people are falling at the 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:50.559 concept of like betting on this, like you know, computer 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:53.760 generated horse race. But look, if you think that's dead. 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:56.240 There's a Twitch channel called salty Bet. I like to 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:59.160 go there sometimes, usually when I'm in a room, usually 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:02.560 usually during big like writing meetings, where there no one's 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:04.880 really talking to me, I'll just hop on a salty bet, 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:08.080 or like when I'm in any other meeting where I'm 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:12.360 not paying that much attention. So salty Bet is a 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:16.600 Twitch channel where there's basically a a arcade machine emulator 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:20.760 called Mugion where people can put custom made characters into 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:23.800 this fighting game, and so like you'll have characters from 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:27.080 like Hulk, you have just like anime characters, You'll have 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:30.080 like Little Wife Who characters, and it's just so many 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:34.480 different characters, street fighter characters sometimes from tech in and 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:39.719 they just automatically randomly placed these different characters against each 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:43.160 other and then you, the user, get these fake currency 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:45.400 called salty box, and you bet on who you think 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:47.360 is going to win the fight, and then there's like 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:50.120 little memes within it. So it's like wife who always wins, 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:53.880 Like because usually the little anime characters, a little chimpy ones, 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:59.840 always have some broken ability or their hit boxes. To Kirby, 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:04.040 everyone underestimates Kirby, but Kirby can take everybody. Speaking of, 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:10.000 Kirby can take anyone's powers, just swallow them and become them. Yeah. 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:13.320 So then in nine seven, Nintendo introduced the Color TV 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:16.960 Game home video game console. The machine came preloaded with 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:20.280 several versions of the same game, initially Nintendo's version of Pong, 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:23.079 one of the most ubiquitous games of the era, and 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:26.880 would sell roughly three million units over the next three years. 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:29.240 So that's like a million a year. That's and back 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:31.880 in the seventies, that's nothing to scoff at. Yeah. So 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:36.000 then two years later they actually made something called Radio 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:39.440 Radar Scope. So that was an arcade game shooter, which 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:42.280 it was kind of a mash up between Space Invaders 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:47.160 and Namcode's galaxion Um. But it also didn't do well well. 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:50.000 It did well in Japan, but then it didn't do 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:52.600 well in North America, which was where they were trying 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:58.240 to break into um So um so what. So they 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:00.480 were trying to break into North America, and it's essentially 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:06.360 Nintendo produced three thousand radar scope cabinets for distribution in 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:10.800 the United States and those didn't really sell, so Yamauchi 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:14.240 was left with nearly two thousand unsold radar scope machines. 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:17.200 I wonder where those are now, and those are probably 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:19.640 so much I know, isn't that funny that they were 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:22.560 probably like nobody wanted them, and now everybody would try 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:24.480 to get their hands on them, because back then they 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:26.760 said the game was too similar to Space Invaders, so 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:29.360 they're like, oh, we already got this, and they're like, 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:34.360 makes sense. But but soon soon they did find a success, 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:38.679 and this is where things get a little familiar. So 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:44.040 then in Donkey Kong dropped and it was a huge success, 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:45.959 but the company did not take their hands off the 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:48.880 joystick and celebrate their win. They quickly developed and released 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:52.000 a sequel named Donkey Kong Junr. Which I feel like 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:54.400 that was the big thing back in the day, Like 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:57.000 the sequel was juniors because you had pac Man, Miss 0:11:57.080 --> 0:12:00.640 pac Man, then pac Man Junior. You know, So Donkey 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:03.040 Kong Jr. Came out and was like what was good? 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:06.600 And this and this featured the son of Donkey Kong 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:09.600 attempting to rescue his father from the evil clutches of 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:13.160 the character formerly known as jump Man but is now 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:16.840 known as Mario. Despite Mario being the bad guy for 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:19.480 the first and only time in his career, the game 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:24.199 was another huge success for Nintendo, and in Mario finally 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:25.800 got a chance to be the star when he and 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:28.760 his brother Luigi now build as the Plumbers from New York. 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:35.400 Which is so interesting. Yeah, such an interest, not cousins 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:39.000 some more. Oh man, there was a huge fight about 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:43.480 uh this, I forgot what show I was doing, but 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:46.880 basically people thought that, oh I was working for a 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:51.960 quiz app. And one of the questions were, what was 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:55.400 the relationship between Warrio and wall Luigi and they're like 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:59.040 brothers and that is not true their cousins. No they're not. 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:03.280 There's no yeah, there's no. No. There was no written 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:07.520 relationship between Walluigi and uh, what kind of question is that? 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:10.960 So was the answer, no relationship. Yeah, it was like 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:14.200 something like that, And so people got mad because they 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:16.760 were so sure, and we did research after It's true. 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:20.520 I even asked h our buddy Nick Wiger, who was 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:24.320 like a big, big fan of Warriors Luigi, and he 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:28.240 was like, nope, okay, so you're telling me that somewhere 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:30.160 in the world there was a mom that had her 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:34.880 son named Warrio and then another part of the world Walluigi, 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:37.920 and it just so happened to find each other. Yeah, 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:40.720 I mean it's it's those are common names in Y Italy. 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:46.280 So I was going to say, if you right before 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:50.400 we had um Donkey Kong Junior. As far as Donkey 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:55.360 Kong being made itself, this is pretty cool. So Yamauchi 0:13:55.440 --> 0:14:00.920 brought in Shigiro Miyamoto to create Donkey Kong, and so 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:05.120 he was one of the developers and because he wasn't 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:10.920 a programmer, he focused more on the story at first, 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:13.760 and he actually was inspired by Popeye. Well it says 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:15.760 he was inspired by Popeye, Beauty and the Beast in 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:20.240 King Kong, which of course Donkey Kong, but um with 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:24.520 with Popeye, he uh, instead of having Bluto and Popeye 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:29.000 fi over olive oil. He essentially made a carpenter, like 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:32.680 you said, jump Man, who ended up being Mario rescue 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:37.400 his girlfriend from a giant gorilla. Donkey Kong Ah and 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:40.160 maybe that's where the mushrooms came from. Instead of spinish, 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:45.480 they ate the mushrooms. Yeah yeah. Miamoto is one of 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:50.320 the biggest kind of names associated with Nintendo. When people 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:54.680 see them, they get happy. Him and Sataru Iwada are like, 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:59.760 you know, he passed recently, but he actually passed in too, 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:02.000 of fifteen. I guess that's not recent any more. Time 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:03.840 has been moving. But I mean like in the in 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:07.280 the grand scheme of Nintendo. Yeah yeah, those are like 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:11.040 kind of the two kind of big dogs for Nintendo, 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:15.200 and you know more notably the Japanese side, North America's 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:18.200 big guys Reggie. Uh you know what, I forgot to say. 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:20.920 There is a brother in this though, and that is 0:15:21.520 --> 0:15:24.920 Diddi Kong. Oh yeah, who I was in love with. 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:27.520 I loved Diddy Kong. I was a Diddy Kong, like 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:29.560 that was who I related to. My older brother was 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:31.960 Donkey Kong, but I was Diddy Kong and I had 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:34.760 Diddy Kong racing, which I still to this day have 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:36.920 a closer place in my heart than Mario Kart. But 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:42.240 let's talk about Mario Mario. On July fifteenth, Nintendo and 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:46.440 Mario leaped out of the arcade and into the living 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:49.680 rooms of millions of families with the release of the 0:15:49.680 --> 0:15:55.200 home console. Family Computer. What a great marketable name family computer. 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:56.880 That's why it was called the in s when it 0:15:56.960 --> 0:15:58.920 was out here, which is funny because it's just as 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:04.320 wordy as family computer, which is shortened a familicom. But 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:08.680 but it's just as much as the Nintendo Entertainment System 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:14.080 sounds cool, which also is just like it's confusing because 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:18.560 you have an entertainment system when you're usually like, you know, 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:22.480 so it's like, oh, but no, that's the Nintendo Entertainment System, 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:25.680 which is inside my entertainment system. Yeah, yeah, and that 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:29.120 So the NEYS was released in the American market in 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:33.000 September of nineteen eighties six, and it had seventeen different 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:36.400 games on it. But everyone's favorite or most people's favorite, 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:39.440 the most popular with Super Mario Brothers. Yeah, So the 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:43.200 seventeen games that dropped with the US when you heard 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:46.840 me say it earlier, the Duck Hunt euro Mite is 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:51.080 that how it's pronounced. That's how we'll say it. That 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:55.560 doesn't sound as good. Um, Yeah, the Tin Yard Fight, Baseball, 0:16:55.760 --> 0:17:00.600 Clue Clue Land, Donkey Kong Junior Math, sounds oh not fun. 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:05.359 You know, someone's mom like they like brought in like family. 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:08.119 They did testing on like parents and stuff about how 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:11.320 they would get them to buy this. That Donkey Kong 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:16.800 Junior Math seems very interest Golf, Hogan's Alley, Ice Climber, 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:22.360 Kung Fu, mock Writer, Pinball, Stack Up, Tennis, Wild Gunman, 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:26.000 and Wrecking Crew. Yeah, but it was funny because it 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:29.880 did not launch with Super Mario Brothers. Even though it's 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:34.160 just been released in Japan, it was not released in America. Yeah, 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:41.320 people have to wait for that new hotness. Is he Italian? Yeah? Okay, 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:44.720 I mean you know he's talking it's I mean, that 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:49.200 doesn't make him Italian. He's just the dude who talks 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:53.040 like that for no reason, I think. So Yeah, um cool, 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:56.840 let's just talk more just Nintendo about the system. There's 0:17:56.840 --> 0:17:59.000 a lot of great people who were involved with Nintendo 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:04.840 that we mentioned, like Miamoto Iwada and Reggie who his 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:08.760 last name I just figured out was Fields. I'm which 0:18:08.840 --> 0:18:11.600 is French. Uh, you grew up in the Bronx, New York. 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:14.080 But people just refer to him as Reggie and he's 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:16.240 kind of the origin of the meme my body as 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:19.560 ready kind of came from him, which which is from 0:18:19.840 --> 0:18:22.680 something he said at an E three, which we'll talk 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:26.520 about at a later episode. But this is about Nintendo 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:28.280 in general, and I don't want to get lost in 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:31.000 the you know, figureheads of the company. I want to 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:34.520 talk about this system itself, and we want to go 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:38.160 and tell you the best selling Nintendo games of all time, 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:41.840 which shocked people. Yeah, it shocked me for sure. So 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:44.000 I'm gonna give you all, you know, a few seconds 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:47.119 to yeah, yeah, to brace yourself, to think what you 0:18:47.240 --> 0:18:49.520 think it is, and we'll do the top ten and 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:51.560 we'll start from tin and we'll work our way up. 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:56.000 So let's get it started. Number ten, which I'm real 0:18:56.080 --> 0:18:58.880 proud about because I've been talking about this game from 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:03.200 started this episode two now is Duck Hut, which is 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:06.000 twenty eight million, which I don't know if that really 0:19:06.080 --> 0:19:07.800 counts since it came with the system, but you know, 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:10.880 I'm gonna give it. I'm gonna give it the crown. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:19:11.359 --> 0:19:16.479 So number nine is we Play super Popular twenty eight 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:20.200 point oh two million, just just barely edging out Ducats, 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:23.960 and number eight is Tetris for the game Boys, speaking 0:19:24.080 --> 0:19:28.760 of which, yeah, thirty million. Okay, so number seven New 0:19:28.880 --> 0:19:33.679 Super Mario Bros. On the Wei. Yeah, I'm fascinated by 0:19:33.720 --> 0:19:36.560 how many of these are WE related. Yeah, so that's 0:19:36.600 --> 0:19:39.680 thirty point eleven million. Yeah. And then the New Super 0:19:39.720 --> 0:19:42.640 Mario Bros. Which was the same game but on the DS. 0:19:43.400 --> 0:19:45.720 Uh or I wonder if it was the other way around. 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:47.399 I think it was. It came out on the DS 0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:50.240 and then they made it for the Wei. We'll look 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:54.920 into that, but that was thirty point eight million. Pokemon 0:19:55.160 --> 0:19:58.480 Red Green Blue for Game Boy, thirty one point thirty 0:19:58.520 --> 0:20:03.800 eight million, Oh We Spicy Diety, and then uh, WE 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:08.639 Sports Resort thirty three point zero six. The WE Sport 0:20:08.760 --> 0:20:11.920 really is like, how is this now? Picture in your 0:20:11.960 --> 0:20:15.959 head every Nintendo game that you know, and WE Sports 0:20:16.040 --> 0:20:19.600 Resort beat it, well, at least most of them. It's 0:20:19.600 --> 0:20:24.920 at number four. Number three. Of course we have Mario Kart. 0:20:25.080 --> 0:20:28.440 This was Mario Kart WE specifically, so thirty seven point 0:20:28.680 --> 0:20:33.040 two million. It makes sense. I guess with the popularity 0:20:33.560 --> 0:20:36.080 of the WE and game like kind of where we're 0:20:36.080 --> 0:20:38.200 at now that the majority of these are for WE. 0:20:38.560 --> 0:20:41.800 But I still find that really fascinating. And number two 0:20:42.000 --> 0:20:44.879 is Super Mario Bros. For the NES and g B 0:20:45.000 --> 0:20:49.840 A forty two point fifty one million. Okay, brace yourself, 0:20:50.200 --> 0:20:52.919 number one. Who what would you have thought number one 0:20:52.960 --> 0:20:55.840 would be the number one selling I would have thought Pokemon. 0:20:55.920 --> 0:20:57.600 But Pokemon is pretty high up there there in the 0:20:57.680 --> 0:21:00.119 top five at least. Yeah, that's true. I guess for 0:21:00.280 --> 0:21:02.920 some reason, I thought it would be Super Mario Bros. 0:21:03.440 --> 0:21:07.080 Um Well, it was, it was until this game came out. 0:21:07.359 --> 0:21:09.600 It was number one until this game came out. This 0:21:09.800 --> 0:21:14.720 game being WE Sports God, yep, the thing that you 0:21:14.840 --> 0:21:19.000 pull out after every Thanksgiving when your family, that's my family, 0:21:19.359 --> 0:21:22.680 when like Uncle's passed out asleep, and who's going to 0:21:22.760 --> 0:21:25.359 break out the WE Sports? You know, It's surprising, but 0:21:25.480 --> 0:21:27.639 not surprising because I feel like WE Sports is the 0:21:27.720 --> 0:21:30.000 one game that across the board, whether you're a gamer 0:21:30.119 --> 0:21:33.200 or not, everyone is aware of. Everyone has seen the video, 0:21:33.280 --> 0:21:37.560 soone playing tennis or someone doing the golf. I feel 0:21:37.600 --> 0:21:40.600 like those videos going viral like many of them did, 0:21:41.119 --> 0:21:44.040 has just made people flock to we'se I can't believe 0:21:44.080 --> 0:21:47.040 that Super Smash Brothers didn't even like get Super Smash 0:21:47.080 --> 0:21:52.720 Brothers number number yeah. Yeah, yeah god, oh yeah. I 0:21:52.760 --> 0:21:55.800 mean I just played that religiously in Super Mario sixty 0:21:55.840 --> 0:21:58.280 four is all the way down at number forty. That 0:21:58.400 --> 0:22:01.239 was my favorite game growing up. It's just really uh 0:22:01.640 --> 0:22:04.840 knocked this back down to PEG. But that is something 0:22:04.960 --> 0:22:07.000 that's very interesting. I want to talk about the WEE 0:22:07.000 --> 0:22:10.399 a bit and the Wei. I feel like inside like 0:22:10.880 --> 0:22:15.000 gamer culture shook the gaming siety guys, because you had 0:22:15.240 --> 0:22:17.240 the WE kind of dropped around the time the PS 0:22:17.320 --> 0:22:20.879 three and the Xbox three sixty came, so everyone was 0:22:20.920 --> 0:22:23.639 waiting for Nintendo's next gen console. So someone thought that 0:22:23.800 --> 0:22:26.240 they were going to compete with something that is that 0:22:26.359 --> 0:22:30.440 has like ten adp HD graphics, very powerful new controller, 0:22:30.480 --> 0:22:33.240 and they came out with this WE console that was 0:22:34.000 --> 0:22:36.760 used a remote. Emotional, I mean, but it was very 0:22:37.119 --> 0:22:40.920 it was extremely interactive, and what it was was approachable 0:22:41.119 --> 0:22:43.280 for a lot of people. I feel like when people 0:22:43.320 --> 0:22:46.679 see controllers, they're like what, but everyone uses a remote, 0:22:47.000 --> 0:22:49.240 so I think that made it approachable for just the 0:22:49.400 --> 0:22:53.200 general kind of you know. Yeah, It's one of those 0:22:53.240 --> 0:22:54.840 things where I think, like, I can't remember in the 0:22:54.880 --> 0:22:56.760 commercials if they did this, but it's it's people of 0:22:56.840 --> 0:22:59.760 all ages essentially, Like you could give your grandma WE 0:23:00.040 --> 0:23:01.920 remote and she can just use her body like she 0:23:02.000 --> 0:23:04.639 can swing, you know, the golf club or bowl. I 0:23:04.720 --> 0:23:07.320 was really great at bowling. And so I agree like 0:23:07.400 --> 0:23:09.720 you said, if it's it's you don't have to worry 0:23:09.840 --> 0:23:13.080 necessarily too much about a lot of the buttons. Uh, 0:23:13.720 --> 0:23:17.000 it's you know, largely based on your body movement for 0:23:17.040 --> 0:23:19.160 a lot of things. So I did think, and it's 0:23:19.280 --> 0:23:21.560 and it's interactive, it's like a family you know, a 0:23:21.640 --> 0:23:24.920 lot of the weed games are encouraging for others to 0:23:25.000 --> 0:23:28.320 play kind of as a group. So and and I 0:23:28.400 --> 0:23:30.399 think you had it right in what you said is 0:23:30.480 --> 0:23:32.879 a family console. It was a big deal where they 0:23:33.000 --> 0:23:35.680 finally came around and had an im rated game. The 0:23:36.040 --> 0:23:39.560