David Rosenthal: belief

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…The Game Genie was the thing that let you enter weird cheat codes and modify the games and stuff. This just shows another example of Nintendo's belief that they know better than anyone else what makes a game fun, and you are not to modify their game rules at all because Miyamoto will come down from the mountain and tell you what is fun or not. So true. Also, we would be remiss, I think, if we didn't point out too that all this was happening during the incredibly ugly and sad era of Japan bashing in the US that we talked about a little bit on the Sony episode. You and I were kids, so thankfully, we didn't really experience this. I remember people in my parents generation just saying really awful things about Japan and Japanese companies at this time. There was this real worry in the US, especially in the business community that as Japan's economy was ascending so rapidly, Japanese companies would come take over all of American media, movie studios, and stuff like that. Yup. We talked about this a lot on the Sony episode.…

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