Nintendo, every mention
29 scenes, the whole family · ← back to Nintendo
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every year anyone Guy Raz 37Henk Rogers 17Luis von Ahn 4Tony Xu 2James Park 2Mark Gainey 1Jason Citron 1Gary Vaynerchuk 1Aaron Krause 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Nintendo comes up
Scrub Daddy: Aaron Krause. How a Failed Experiment Became a Billion-Dollar Sponge
- ▶ 12:44 Aaron Krause He's like, you just ruined my best Nintendo score, and I'm like, are you kidding me?
MGA Entertainment: Isaac Larian
- ▶ 21:53 Guy Raz That you basically got the license to distribute these Nintendo game watches, and I remember they were, like, these rectangular little games, and they had a crystal LED screen, and, uh, you could play, like, Pong, or, you know, basic games… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:22 Guy Raz So, it's around 1987, and Isaac's toy company, Micro Games of America, has just had its first big success, importing and distributing the Nintendo Game and Watch. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:16 Guy Raz You're the guy that said Nintendo and heard no, and you felt like this really, you were going to be defeated.
reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn (2020)
- ▶ 5:05 Luis von Ahn I wanted a Nintendo when I was eight. 2 times in the scene
The Tetris Company: Henk Rogers
- ▶ 2:44 Guy Raz There were powerful companies like Atari claiming rights to the game, and executives at Nintendo who weren't convinced that Tetris was a gamble worth taking.
- ▶ 11:56 Guy Raz And I guess you had this idea of maybe working with Nintendo. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:22 Henk Rogers Uh, I can make a Go game for your Nintendo machine.
- ▶ 14:49 Henk Rogers Yamiche says, it's too weak for Nintendo. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:35 Guy Raz I mean, you had now an in to the top dog in Nintendo. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:32 Guy Raz So this is going to be a, a oppression, because eventually Nintendo's going to come back into this story, but, but you continue to
- ▶ 26:13 Henk Rogers I wanted Nintendo. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:45 Henk Rogers For Nintendo. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:20 Guy Raz Because you had to pay Nintendo to, to, to manufacture them. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:13 Guy Raz Alright, so, Tetris is starting to take off on the Nintendo consoles in Japan.
- ▶ 33:39 Guy Raz President of Nintendo America. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:13 Guy Raz And Nintendo?
- ▶ 41:55 Guy Raz You showed him a cartridge, a Nintendo cartridge of Tetris, and he said, you don't have the rights to this. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:20 Henk Rogers And I'd, you know, we'd, we'd sort of like, on the back of the envelope, how many, uh, units will Nintendo, uh, sell that include Tetris?
- ▶ 50:03 Guy Raz And that you already had the agreement from Nintendo USA to put it with every Game Boy sold as a bundled game that was included.
- ▶ 51:01 Guy Raz Not, not you or Atari or Nintendo. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:18 Henk Rogers I remember being in a room, and, uh, it's all Nintendo lawyers, and then there's Mr.
Alienware: Frank Azor and Nelson Gonzalez
Strava: Mark Gainey and Michael Horvath
- ▶ 27:47 Mark Gainey This was a company, again, mid-nineties that was basically allowing two Nintendo gamers that live in different cities to play and communicate with each other.
Discord: Jason Citron
- ▶ 36:34 Jason Citron So I'm talking, you know, Nintendo, Sony with their PlayStation, Microsoft Xbox, you know, Valve has their Steam store.
Live From The HIBT Summit: Gary Vaynerchuk
- ▶ 29:16 Gary Vaynerchuk You know, the best part about garage selling is you pull up to a house at 7:30 in the morning, and you don't know if you're going to find a rare Nintendo game for a dollar.
reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn
- ▶ 4:53 Luis von Ahn I wanted a Nintendo when I was eight. 2 times in the scene
Fitbit: James Park
- ▶ 17:54 James Park Uh, it was December of 2006, and Nintendo had just announced the Nintendo Wii. 2 times in the scene