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David Rosenthal: evaluation

16 Mar 2023 Acquired Nintendo's Origins

“The gorilla—this is important—does not want to hurt the girlfriend. He actually likes her quite a bit.”

— David Rosenthal

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David Rosenthal
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Claim type
evaluation
Recorded
16 Mar 2023
Publisher
Acquired

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…Okay. The gorilla—this is important—does not want to hurt the girlfriend. He actually likes her quite a bit. He just wants to stick it to the protagonist. He runs with the girlfriend into a skyscraper construction site, climbs up to the top of this half constructed skyscraper, and starts throwing barrels and construction equipment down at the protagonist as he tries to chase them up. Your goal as the player is to reach the top of the construction site, defeat the gorilla, and save the girlfriend, which is incredibly simplistic today, but nothing like this had ever existed before. And so wonderfully innocent and convoluted, too, everything about that, you're like, what? That worked? That was the best story you could come up with?…

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