David Rosenthal: evaluation

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…Yup, and I read Super Mario. Also great. The thing that we realized and Ben and I were texting about this as we were doing the research, all these books either focus on the Nintendo Japan story or the Nintendo America story, or the video games in America story or the video games in Japan story, and they keep them separate. It's super weird to us. I think that misses the point of the story here, which is that the rise of video games and the rise of Nintendo is this incredible inner-woven global tale. Nintendo of America wouldn't have happened without Nintendo of Japan, and Nintendo of Japan would not at all be what it is without Nintendo of America. What we're going to try to do here is unite these stories and tell them together as one canonical Nintendo story, I think maybe for the first time. I don't know, at least that we found. This is going to be fun. Speaking of this, we start our story, appropriately enough, not in Japan in the late 1800s when Nintendo was founded, but in California in the 1970s with a friend of the show and one of, if not maybe, the original father of Silicon Valley, Nolan Bushnell of Atari. And certainly the father of the video games industry.…

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