Evan Ratliff
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Tochies?
Who was that?
Tomax and Zaymot.
They were evil twins who were basically like if Cobra Commander had hired Patrick Bateman and then cloned him, a mere version of him, it would be Tomax and Zaymot.
Yeah.
Okay.
That's a lot of stuff.
And, of course, it was pretty expensive at the time.
So for the national rollout, they kept the deluxe set.
But they also came up with something called the NES Control Deck, which was just the console, two controllers, and, very, very importantly, Super Mario Brothers.
Interesting.
I know none of this stuff.
Right, right.
Okay, so I do because I grew up with it.
But I also had it pounded into my head every day after school watching the G.I.
And that was $99.
And they sold those things as fast as they could make them for the holidays that year.
Joe cartoon.
And that was the huge innovation that really just created this other world for kids like me.
Yeah, you really can't overstate the importance of Super Mario Brothers.