Evan Ratliff

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.

That is eye-popping, and that means that they were successful.

They used Rob to get their feet in the door, and they knew that if they just got their console in the hands of Americans, they would change their minds forever about video games, and that's exactly what happened.

Yeah.

From like 1983 to 84, I think.

Um, whereas before it was like, no, we don't.

And they avoided the Atari mistake, which was they did their best to try and keep bad games from being able to play it on their system.

G.I.

Joe's an adventure.

Remember?

It's like, no, G.I.