Evan Ratliff

It's for cutting through vegetation on a jungle adventure.

I loved Atari, but Atari was Atari and it had a lot of limits.

to save Sherpas who for some reason live in the jungle now.

And this was, you know, you went to the arcade so you could play games better than Atari.

Yeah, and like you said, they call them adventurer or the naval officer was called an aquanaut.

Now you could do it at home.

Right.

Yeah.

So that was an enormous progression.

But it wasn't just like the graphics, the quality of the look of it.

And I very much remember that being the deal.

It was also the gameplay, too.

I didn't think of him as a soldier.

Like it was way more fun than most of the games you were going to play on an Atari.

I thought of him as, well, I thought his name was Joe because I guess I was a dumb little kid.

It was just funner to play some of these Famcom games.

But I guess Rocky, the G.I.

And it took off like a rocket.

Joe adventure guy.

It knocked the Epoch cassette vision right off of the top place.