Evan Ratliff

One of the last things he did was he vetoed a new measure because basically they saw what was happening.

game episode.

Like, E.T.

gets unfairly piled upon because it was just such a big release.

All of a sudden kids were being bombarded with...

But there were far worse games released on the Atari system.

war cartoons and just terrible sugary packaged food all over the place.

Hundreds and hundreds of really, really bad games that just no one even remembers.

The restrictions were nowhere to be found.

And Nintendo saw this play out in America and knew that they couldn't let that happen to them.

So Congress came back and said, you know what, this is out of hand.

So they designed a proprietary system where you could only play officially licensed NES games.

Here's a measure that will restrict once again and impose some legislation on this programming aimed at children.

They created a lock chip on their circuit board.

It passed the House by 328 to 78.

and only Nintendo officially licensed games or manufactured games had the lock key or the key chip to unlock it, and that really kept quality control under their wing.

passed unanimously in the Senate and Reagan vetoed it and said, basically one of the things they were trying to do, they were trying to limit programming to advertising to 10.5 minutes an hour on the weekends and 12 minutes an hour on the weekdays and also provide, require broadcasters to provide educational and informational programs as a condition of renewing their licenses.

They said even to third parties, they said you can only make two of these games a year.

Don't come at us with 200 games.

Make something really, really good that we'll approve of, and we will put the Nintendo seal of quality on the front of the cover.