Evan Ratliff

That sounds urban legend-y to me.

He had the N64.

Well, it was in one of the articles you sent and I took it, the person who wrote the article sounded like they knew what they were talking about.

He was my golden eye partner, but he also got an Xbox and we were both addicted to the Tony Hawk skating game for about a year.

Really?

But was that the same article from the guy who said that Kenner couldn't sign the contracts because the right people weren't there?

Oh, yeah, that was a good game.

I don't know because the first thing I think of is if they're doing that, then what's to keep them from artificially manufacturing something that's going to be valuable and just keeping a bunch of them themselves?

And that was a game that carried with you in real life because if you played enough Tony Hawk, someone who'd never skateboarded, you would be walking around in the world and going like, I could totally grind that gutter on top of that roof.

Well, most companies like money now rather than a little more money later.

Right.

It's pretty funny.

So another thing that those controllers did was give us the cheat code, which I guess you could conceivably do on like an Atari joystick.

So that would probably do it.

Yeah, that's true.

You know?

All right.

But they really came along thanks to the NES because there was a developer who was trying to turn the arcade game Gradius into a Nintendo game.

So you want to talk about how these suckers are made?

Yeah.