Evan Ratliff

they kind of got in bed together and they said, you know what, if you show, if you schedule as a broadcaster our cartoons that sell toys, we'll give you a profit on those toys.

Yeah, I mean, anytime you control that much of a market, the FTC is going to sniff around.

So if you run these G.I.

And there were other companies out there trying to bootleg games still.

Joe cartoons, then we'll give you a little cut of what we're selling.

There was one called TenGen that had a few licensed games, but they wanted more money.

Plus also, we'll buy ads on those cartoons, or on your network too, to sell those toys when you show these cartoons, I imagine.

And so they went to the patent office and said, hey, can we take a look at that patent for these lock and key chips?

Because I remember watching G.I.

Joe, Real American Hero, the cartoon, which I have to say, it was created in large part to sell G.I.

And they said, sure, here it is.

And so they, I guess...

illegally because they ended up getting sued and Nintendo won so I mean I don't know how that patent law works I wasn't I'm surprised that you could just go get a patent and rip it off well you're supposed to improve upon it they seem to have just ripped it off but I think it's one of those things that was like gray illegal gray area that wouldn't be decided anywhere outside of court okay makes sense you know what I mean yeah so they just tank tank and rolled the dice and they lost essentially okay

Joe.

It's true.

But it had great story arcs.

It had overarching story arcs that went from episode to episode.

The individual ones were good.

The voice acting was good.

The animation was pretty good.