How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 13 December 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

For the holidays in 1986 (and ’87) (and ’88) the most stupendous, most wanted, most amazing thing any kid could possibly get – outside of a pony, *maybe* – was the NES. That year, video games came back from the dead and changed forever.

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0:00.0	Here in the last archive, I've been trying to figure out what happened to Truth.
0:03.6	I've been telling stories about how we know what we know,
0:06.4	and why it seems sometimes lately is if we don't know anything at all.
0:10.6	But I am done with the problems of Truth. I want solutions.
0:14.8	The season of the last archive is all about common knowledge.
0:18.8	Is that kind of knowledge still possible? I tried to find out.
0:22.4	Coming soon.
0:24.7	Listen to the last archive on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
0:28.4	or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:58.8	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of iHeartRadio.
1:11.5	Hey and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh and there's Chuck and we're 10 years old right now,
1:16.8	and this is Stuff You Should Know. Can I go ahead and admit something?
1:22.1	No, yes, I'm nervous though, but yes, go ahead.
1:26.6	Well, I was a little bit old for Nintendo, the NES system,
1:33.6	and that's not to say that kids my age weren't playing it, but it really boomed in popularity right
1:39.3	when I was 15, 16 and starting to drive and get out in the world.
1:44.8	Right. And I also did not own one, so like I never played Mario Kart in Zelda and
1:53.8	sort of these classic games. Eventually in college, I remember it had to have been a super
2:00.4	Nintendo and like 92. Yeah, my roommate had one, so that's where I first started playing
2:07.3	Super Mario World. And I played Stuff like Tetris and Mario and the Game Boy
2:12.5	that my brother had, but I've never owned a Nintendo.
2:18.2	Well, I can tell you that Nintendo came out and I was 10, 11 years old, not driving yet.
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