Evan Ratliff

Gotcha.

Yeah.

Like, tray tables and everything, essentially.

And then I had the submarine.

It was like, that's what they did with that controller design.

It was like a seawolf.

It was really cool.

And now you think about it, you look at it like the Nintendo brick, and especially the Famcom controllers, they look so old-fashioned.

How big was the submarine if you were playing with 12 inch GI Joes?

Did it take up the size of the family room?

Well, this is not going to mean anything to anyone at home, but it's about the size of this lamp on our desk.

Yeah.

But if you can put yourself in the mindset of somebody in Japan in 1983, if you looked around at the other stuff available, it was just from the future.

Oh, so it was like a one man sub?

Yeah, I feel like it was, I can't remember exactly, I feel like it was about the size of a little smaller than a bowling ball.

And that was one of the things that Nintendo did really, really well during this period.

How's that?

Like a child's bowling ball.

They figured out what everyone thought—

Yeah, because he had to sit in it, you're right, and he was a big dude, even though in a seated position he was smaller.