Evan Ratliff

Yeah.

Do you remember that PlayStation ad that was like for PlayStation 7?

And it was actually kind of, I think it was actually went away from production for a while.

It was just people running around the real world.

Yeah, it did.

They basically retired him.

It was all like VR and augmented reality.

I think the Vietnam War hurt sales, so they took him out a little bit.

I don't remember that.

It was pretty cool because it came out in like the 90s, and you're like, ooh, and we're pretty close to that now already, you know?

And then they re-released him again and kind of rebranded him, I think, too.

Oh, for sure.

They bundled the Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr.

Rather than a soldier, they rebranded him as an adventurer, right?

games and the Popeye games, which were basically about the same quality as you would get at the arcade.

Yeah, totally.

This machete's not for cutting off the hands of a Sherpa who leads us into danger.

Yeah, that was huge.

It was a huge deal.

I mean, especially if you grew up playing Atari.