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It's been forty years since The Legend of Zelda arrived on the Famicom Disk System, and with the Ocarina of Time remake landing on Switch 2 in November, we're going back to where it started. Miyamoto's childhood caves, the dungeon crawler that grew an overworld, Koji Kondo rewriting the title theme overnight because of a copyright problem, and the phone line Nintendo had to staff because nobody could work out where to go. Plus a small, polite disagreement with the Guinness Book of World Records. Join us, Player One — it's dangerous to go alone.
Sources:
Was The Legend Of Zelda Actually Named After Its Heroine?
Super Cassette Vision / Save Cartridges
Zelda Williams talks about her love for Nintendo
An Intriguing Tale of How The Legend of Zelda's Iconic Opening Song Almost Never Happened
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1977 is the first time that a normal person might afford a pre-assembled computer that comes with a monitor and keyboard. Find out how, and why!
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Video Game Console Library - Atari
John Carmack tried to steal Apple 2 Computers
The Computer trinity
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Everyone calls the Tamagotchi the first virtual pet. It wasn't. It wasn't the most advanced, either — and the one that beat it to market by twelve days had actual neural networks. So how did a plastic egg with three buttons and twenty pixels flatten all of them, sell over 100 million units, and make Shigeru Miyamoto think Mario 64 had lost? Ahead of its 30th anniversary this November, we find out what the Tamagotchi was actually first at.
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Sources:
Official Tamagotchi Website History
IG Nobel Prize Winners
Museum of Play - Tamagotchi
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This episode we take a partial traditional approach, covering the history of Pokémon and the minds behind the biggest media franchise of all time. But Pokémon's too huge a topic to stay tidy, so we also go on a side quest into the weirder stuff — like a million strangers controlling one Game Boy on Twitch, and Pokémon GO's surprising ties to military surveillance.
Sources:
History of Pokemon - Bulbapedia
A Brief History of Pokemon Being Left Out of Games - Video Game Story Time
Speedrun World Records Pokemon Red/Blue
The Complete History of Twitch Plays Pokemon - Schwam Games
70 YEARS OLD GRANDPA USES 45 PHONES TO PLAY POKEMON GO - POKÉMON GO
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SEGA made awesome consoles, and they were the only manufacturer that gave Nintendo any competition at all. In this episode we discuss SEGA's consoles, the Game Gear, and their departure from console manufacturing.
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Sources:
Interview with Hideki Sato
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