Evan Ratliff
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I've been saying Mego in my head just because I'm a dumb American.
And it was a tough sell at first in the US because, like you said, the video game craze, for lack of a better word, had kind of come and gone.
Well, I think Mego is probably how they say it in the UK.
Oh, is that where it came from?
No, they're American.
I say Mego.
This was 1985.
To be honest, I have no idea.
Parents were still not, you know, they were like, I'm glad that went away, basically.
I'm sure there is a right way that Tommy Mego would love to tell you about, or Tommy Mego.
And now we have these PCs in our homes, and my kid can play Oregon Trail or whatever, and they seem happy enough with that.
But yeah, I've said Mego in my head, but I don't know which one's correct to tell you the truth.
And Nintendo knew all this was going on.
All right.
They knew it was going to be a tougher sell.
We'll just proceed thusly.
I'll say Mego.
So they knew they had to come up with something awesome.
You say Mego.
Let's just call the whole thing off.