Evan Ratliff

It's a bit of a racket.

So he said, like you were talking about, there's tons of money to be made here.

He was a military history buff and so he had this, the light bulb went off over his head and he says, what if we could come up with a soldier doll or perhaps even a series of soldier dolls

And when I looked at it today, I mean, it's very, very basic, but it was pretty good still.

Like your calling plays and all the sounds came flooding back.

It was a big rush of nostalgia.

Yeah.

It's somehow two-bit graphics, I think.

and maybe not call them dolls.

Yeah.

And this, to be clear, what we're going to talk about today is the original NES.

Actually, he didn't come up with the name.

To be fair, his boss at Hasbro, VP Don Levine or Levine in 1963, he was pitched this idea and he went nuts over it and he's the one that said maybe we should call them action figures.

This could have been a two-parter if we would have gone down the road of the 64.

Like, we're not even talking about the music today at all.

No, no.

So there was plenty more material here, but this is just a bit of an homage for the Christmas season.

Yeah, because, I mean, it's the holidays, so one of the greatest things you can do during the holidays is reminisce nostalgically about holidays past.

Right.

Yeah.