107: The Untold Origin Story of Nintendo Direct
The Kit & Krysta Podcast
The Kit & Krysta Podcast
4.7 • 544 Ratings
🗓️ 29 February 2024
⏱️ 134 minutes
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Hello and welcome to episode 107 of the Kit & Krysta Podcast! We have a very special Nintendo storytime to share with you today. Since we just had a Nintendo Direct, we wanted to share the origin story of Nintendo Direct. Some of you may be surprised to find out how it all started and it's wild to think that its humble origins led to what a Nintendo Direct is today. Also in this episode, we're celebrating the launch of Final Fantasy: Rebirth by sharing our top 3 and bottom 3 Final Fantasy games. We also have a lot of news to talk about including our reactions to Mother 3 coming to the Japan NSO but not the US. We are dabbling in a few of the new games and demos that were released after the Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase. Get comfy and let's get started!
0:00 - What is the first Nintendo Direct you watched? Tell us in the comments!
13:45 - The untold origin story of Nintendo Direct
58:39 - Our top 3 and bottom 3 Final Fantasy games
1:20:14 - News news news
1:34:36 - Games we are playing (Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth, Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On, Contra Operation Galuga, Pepper Grinder)
1:47:40 - Questions from our Patreon subscribers
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| 0:32.6 | Today we're going to be telling you the origins of Nintendo Direct. |
| 0:44.3 | Such an interesting story. This has become this big, like very much of a staple in all of our lives. |
| 0:50.3 | But how did Nintendo Direct come to be? |
| 0:53.3 | You... You. Me. I'm pointing a finger at you, were actually there at the very beginning, at the conception of Nintendo Direct working directly, |
| 1:04.0 | directly, with Mr. Wada himself and sort of like started, you know, the, what we know as Nintendo Direct today. |
| 1:13.6 | And it was very different back then and what evolved to today is, of course, something |
| 1:18.2 | that we all have come to love and get excited about. But yeah, we have this untold story |
| 1:24.1 | about the origins of Nintendo Direct in just a few minutes for all of you. |
| 1:30.9 | Yeah, this is one of the big stories that we've just been sitting on. |
| 1:34.9 | And since we just had a Nintendo Direct last week, fresh in the mind, where we had weeks and weeks of anticipation leading up to it, felt like this was a good time. |
| 1:39.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:39.7 | But yeah, it's like, you know, we had a lot of these sort of like forest gump moments where we were just around a lot of big things happening at Nintendo in the time that we were there. |
| 1:50.4 | And this was one, you know, I started working on the second Nintendo Direct, which was when it really started to become a thing. |
| 1:58.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:58.9 | And yes, it was very different than how it is now. |
| 2:02.2 | And you might be surprised at some of the things that happened that got us to this point. |
| 2:07.1 | But, yeah, we're going to be telling that story soon. |
| 2:10.1 | It's going to be a good one. |
| 2:10.8 | It's going to be a really good one. |
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