Evan Ratliff

Exactly.

I knew your nerd voice was going to come up in this episode.

But he essentially just pushed the buttons on the Player 2 controller.

Well, sure, of course.

So if you got tired and frustrated of waiting for Rob, you could just push the buttons on the Player 2 controller yourself and play Gyromite that way.

So if you have a love of Mego, or you just want to know what we're talking about, also go check out the Mego Museum online.

But the point was they don't seem, in retrospect, to have really thought Rob was going to take off.

M-E-G-O Museum.

And it's just basically like this...

wonderful online museum dedicated to everything that Migo ever put out.

In fact, the games that he came with in North America were the Japanese versions.

It's pretty cool.

I wasn't even around when these things came out and yet they still somehow make me nostalgic, you know?

They hadn't even bothered to make the North American version of these.

Exactly.

All right, so let's jump back a little bit to 1966 and we're gonna explain how they went from eight inches, even though they were still making the eight inchers after 66, how they eventually got down to the three and three quarters inch.

They just put kind of this fix on it that made it compatible with the North American system.

But when you loaded up Gyromite, the intro screen showed the Japanese name for it at the very beginning of it.

G.I.

Joe was licensing their stuff out to other countries.