Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: belief
16 Mar 2023 Acquired Nintendo's Origins
“I think she was either the wife or girlfriend of one of the guys working at the company at Nintendo of America at the time.”
Source trail
Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 16 Mar 2023
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Nintendo's Origins
Transcript context
…Amazing. Totally amazing. They named the girlfriend Pauline. I think she was either the wife or girlfriend of one of the guys working at the company at Nintendo of America at the time. They named her Pauline because the warehouse manager who was taking a lot of the heat from Mario Segale, directing it away from the Nintendo guys, and taking the hits for them, his wife was named Polly, so they named the character Pauline after her as a thank you to him.…
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