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Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: belief
11 Apr 2023 Acquired Nintendo: The Console Wars
“I think that tells you a ton about the potential demand for on-the-go video entertainment in the 1980s.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 11 Apr 2023
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Nintendo: The Console Wars
Transcript context
…Huge deal. Legend has it that the way Gunpei came up with the idea for doing the Game & Watch in the first place was when he was on the train in Tokyo. He observed a businessman who was also on the train, who was just killing time by pressing buttons on his calculator and doing random things on his business calculator. I think that tells you a ton about the potential demand for on-the-go video entertainment in the 1980s. I'd say that was apocryphal, but that has literally happened to me, where I pulled out my phone and I'm up to date on my email, I'm up to date on Twitter. I pulled down, no new tweets are coming in, so I'm scrolling around on the home screen doing nothing, opening and closing the same apps over again just because it's entrancing.…
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