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CC2ndHour: "The Console Wars," with Blake J. Harris

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🗓️ 15 July 2016

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Send us a text! Guest Blake J. Harris, author of Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation, regales us with the story of the 90s video game battle that pitted newcomer, Sega of America, against Nintendo, an unstoppable force, and maker of Mario Brothers, Duck Hunt, a...

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0:00.0

Hey y'all Airfon Liza here I'm excited to bring you this conversation with Blake J Harris

0:10.4

but first a quick fact Did you know in the early

0:13.3

90s in the US, one in three homes had a Nintendo

0:16.4

entertainment console in it? One in three homes.

0:18.6

Nintendo had a virtual stranglehold on the video game market. But Sega, a

0:22.3

newcomer to the game, was determined to

0:24.2

dethron Nintendo as the king of the console with their own new console, the Sega Genesis.

0:29.0

Blake is going to help us unravel the details of this incredible story. Let's get into it. I'm thrilled to be

0:36.0

joined by Blake J Harris. Blake, do I need to use the J?

0:40.8

I'm really surprised that the J made it this far. My child

0:44.2

had been reminded me that back in Hebrew school in fifth grade I included the J

0:49.7

to try to throw off a teacher and claim that I was a different like her

0:55.0

that we're looking for.

0:56.7

And here it is 20 years later.

0:59.1

I just thought you were a huge fan of Michael J Fox.

1:02.3

No, but I think there's a special exclusive club of Michael J. Fox. No, but I think there's a special exclusive club of us Jay

1:04.8

and initial people. Thomas J. Kalinsky being included as well. Oh, his middle initials J. I didn't

1:10.1

know that. That's why we were you know had such a great connection.

1:13.7

Wow but I think it sounds good and it does sound a little pretentious so I guess

1:17.8

only slightly only enough to make you seem cool. But Michael Fox really did bring it a long way.

1:23.4

He was the one that took it past the pretentiousness to that sort of like,

1:26.4

it's kind of fun to be a little pretentious.

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