Game Boy, every mention
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every year anyone Guy Raz 15Henk Rogers 7
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Game Boy comes up
MGA Entertainment: Isaac Larian
The Tetris Company: Henk Rogers
- ▶ 32:34 Guy Raz In the meantime, you catch wind of a new product that Nintendo is working on, and this is going to be a handheld game system, which we now know and love as the Game Boy, but how did you find out about that product? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:02 Guy Raz So they agree to sell this with every Game Boy and
- ▶ 38:44 Guy Raz Because then you would lose the opportunity to have Tetris on every Game Boy.
- ▶ 40:50 Henk Rogers In English, yes, in English, and so I showed her, I'm the publisher of this game, I'm Tetris, and I'm looking for someone to talk to me about the Game Boy Rides, and, uh, and she said, okay, wait here, and she disappeared, and a little…
- ▶ 42:32 Henk Rogers I would like to meet someone to talk about the, the, the Game Boy rights. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:53 Guy Raz So, it's early 1989, and Hank Rogers is in Moscow, hoping to get the rights to publish Tetris on the Game Boy.
- ▶ 48:25 Henk Rogers When I leave here, I either leave here with the Game Boy rights, or I leave here without the Game Boy rights, but I'm not coming back. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:17 Guy Raz You secured the rights for, uh, Nintendo in Japan, and then you also had the rights, the worldwide rights to Tetris on the Game Boy, right?
- ▶ 51:28 Guy Raz And what happened when, when Tetris was shipped off with the Game Boys?
- ▶ 56:10 Henk Rogers A Game Boy player in Japan could not play the arcade, because the, it's like the brakes and the gas pedal were reversed.