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The Kit & Krysta Podcast

141: The Untold Story of the 2016 Nintendo Switch Reveal Video

The Kit & Krysta Podcast

The Kit & Krysta Podcast

Technology, Society & Culture, Video Games, Leisure

4.7544 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2024

⏱️ 139 minutes

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Hi and welcome to episode 141 of the Kit & Krysta Podcast! We just passed the anniversary of the iconic Nintendo Switch reveal video so we wanted to share the untold story of how this video came to be and what it was like inside Nintendo when we finally revealed Nintendo Switch to the world. It's really cool how this became an iconic moment in video game history. Also in this episode, we react to Mr. Sakurai's final YouTube video and talk about what game we think he might be working on. We're also playing a ton of games including Super Mario Party Jamboree and share our initial impressions on the game. We wrap it all up with questions from our Patreon subscribers. All this and much much more is coming right up. Get comfy and let's go!

0:00 - Meet us on the roof to play some Mario Odyssey!
11:53 - Behind the scenes of the Nintendo Switch reveal video
44:07 - News news news (Masahiro Sakurai's last YouTube video, Super Nintendo World in Orlando, Namco "layoffs", Mario & Luigi Brothership developer revealed)
1:05:55 - Games we're playing (Mario Party Jamboree, Fear the Spotlight, Skeleton Jack, Infinity Nikki, Warhammer 40K)
1:49:12 - Questions from our Patreon subscribers

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- All Hail the Final Boss - Aaron Hash
- Ben Eichorn, MaruMayhem, Eigenverse, KissMyFlapjack, Mike Chin, Roy Eschke, Switchingitup_, vgmlife, Link The Hero of Winds, Angela Bycroft and her pig Molly, Thomas O’Rourke, Kyle LeBoeuf, Roberto Nieves, Fredrik Ulf Konradsson, Andrew Youhas, Chilly, Simon, krashuri, Master Discord, Ash, Ajay Kundlas, Fortygig

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-Kit & Krysta

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0:38.3

It is the anniversary of the Switch Reveal trailer.

0:43.3

So we're going to be looking back and telling you some behind-the-scenes stories about how this thing got made, what the feeling was like inside Nintendo when this happened.

0:55.0

Yeah, and lots more things that you might not know about this iconic reveal trailer.

1:00.0

Yes, big anniversary week for this iconic moment.

1:03.0

Yeah.

1:04.0

Not just Nintendo history, but gaming history.

1:05.0

I think so.

1:06.0

Do you know how many years?

1:07.0

Um, it's been eight years now.

1:09.0

Eight years.

1:10.0

Yes. Wow. Eight years.

1:11.3

Yes.

1:11.9

Wow.

1:13.2

Eight years.

1:13.9

That's amazing.

1:15.6

That's a long time ago.

1:16.3

Yeah.

1:25.0

I don't recall if it was the last episode of the episode before, we were talking about the image that got shared on social with Mario looking behind the curtain.

1:25.5

Yes. And that seemed to get a lot of interest.

1:45.0

Again, we don't know what people are going to find interesting in these podcasts. We think there's a lot of things that are interesting, but stuff that gets picked up and becomes a new story, it's like, you never know. I don't, I didn't know why that one was a particular interest. There's some interest in this. So let's, let's revisit this and talk about it a bit more.

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