Evan Ratliff

Joe's going to cut Cobra's head right off.

So that's in 1980.

That's one of the first big things Reagan did when he got into office.

And that's what happened with Atari.

The games got so bad.

I mean, there are hundreds and hundreds.

Flash forward to 1988 in November.

We talked about this in the E.T.

One of the last things he did was he vetoed a new measure because basically they saw what was happening.

game episode.

Like, E.T.

gets unfairly piled upon because it was just such a big release.

All of a sudden kids were being bombarded with...

But there were far worse games released on the Atari system.

war cartoons and just terrible sugary packaged food all over the place.

Hundreds and hundreds of really, really bad games that just no one even remembers.

The restrictions were nowhere to be found.

And Nintendo saw this play out in America and knew that they couldn't let that happen to them.

So Congress came back and said, you know what, this is out of hand.

So they designed a proprietary system where you could only play officially licensed NES games.