Evan Ratliff

Joe was well known for that scar on his face, and I didn't even know this, he had an inverted thumbnail, and both of these were because of errors in production, but those flaws were what allowed them to go after people for copyright infringement.

That's right.

That's crazy.

Yeah, it is.

Well, which makes it the biggest.

And, yeah, I guess they were natural.

I guess you could also say it was the smallest.

That's true.

Like, they didn't plan them or anything like that, but they just were happy accidents, I guess.

But it was not a Nintendo product, right?

No, it absolutely wasn't.

Yeah.

In fact, it was Nintendo came along as a rival to this cassette vision, Epoch cassette vision.

And, actually, I read also elsewhere, Chuck, that GI Joe was so successful, as we'll see.

That by the 70s, there were so many knockoffs that Hasbro released its own line of knockoffs of cheaply made GI Joes to compete with the knockoffs and dilute their market share.

So the head of Nintendo, Hiroshi Yamauchi, he apparently was this driving force.

He had some really great people working for him in Japan and in North America.

Yeah, it was called Defenders.

And there were just these really cheaply made versions of the big GI Joes.

But he seems to have been this person who would be like –