Evan Ratliff
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
You didn't know that?
I thought the guy was Joe.
No, for my era, the main guy was Duke.
Like,
I don't think it's good for their brains.
I don't think it was a part of the satanic panic necessarily.
And for your era, the main guy was Rocky.
It was pre-satanic panic.
Well, depends on which one you had.
It was more along the lines of you're riding your brain.
Okay.
So there was Rocky was the Army and the Marines.
Right.
So was that the thing that triggered it or was it the terrible, terrible games that really triggered what's called the North American video game crash of 1983?
Skip was the Navy guy.
And Ace was the Air Force guy, the fighter pilot.
It was the games, wasn't it?
Right, so they ran out of names after name three and circled back to Rocky.
Well, I mean, I think it was a two-part thing.
Like kids got a little less interested because the games started to suck, quite frankly.