Evan Ratliff

cartoons were born.

G.I.

And the very first ones were created by Nintendo with the grand championships at Universal Studios Hollywood.

Joe, Transformers, Smurfs.

Care Bears.

Rainbow Bright, Strawberry Shortcake.

Yeah, you name it.

It basically became marketing and selling things and cartoons became one and the same finally.

Yeah, I hadn't thought about that.

But yeah, you can make the case that they created the esports phenomenon or they laid the groundwork for it to come at least, right?

Yeah.

And one of the other things that definitely helped G.I.

I would think so.

Joe, too, was the I don't know if it was formal or informal, but there was basically a ban on on war like cartoons and war like toys.

Yeah, that's pretty cool.

So there was a poll of Nintendo players after the national rollout that found that 95% of teens polled said that they recommended the NES to their friends.

Yes.

That was brought back under the same ease of restrictions by the FTC.

And I think 83% of adults and 85% of little kids recommended

Um, so that I think the percentage of warlike toys that was sold in the early eighties went up like 350% from one year over the other.