Keza MacDonald

Thank you so much.

I'm so tired.

I never get tired of talking about Zelda particularly.

Of all the Zelda franchises, that's my one.

Link is my guy.

He's my non-binary icon, and I adore him.

I love how big they've made my name on that American edition.

It's really fun for me.

Yeah, eight and a half hours of me in your ears.

If you ever do an audio book, I went insane, just insane, talking to myself for three days in a studio.

It was an experience.

I did think it was a good time to try and write a cultural history of Nintendo because we are reaching the end of an era, right?

Like, the end of the Nintendo Switch era for me felt like almost a changing of the guard.

All these people who have worked at Nintendo for decades and who built the Nintendo that we know are retiring.

And indeed, some of them are no longer with us, like Satoru Wata and Gunpei Yokoi.

So it feels to me like the Switch 2 is the last one of these consoles that, you know, many of these people will have touched, will have had any kind of input into.

And...

it's really clear that the creative legacy of these games, that Nintendo's longstanding games that have been around for decades has been passed down to new people.

It's really interesting how that happens.

That was one of the things I really got into in the book and found really interesting.