Leveling Up Nintendo | Author Jeff Ryan On The Nintendo Way To Play | 5

Business Movers

Wondery

History, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Author Jeff Ryan discusses the rise of Nintendo in America, and how the video game company has changed - and stayed the same - in the two decades since the departure of Minoru Arakawa.

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0:00.0	Wundery Plus subscribers can listen to business movers early and ad free right now.
0:05.0	Join Wundry Plus in the Wundery app or on Apple Podcasts. Wandering. It's February 17th, 2021 at the Universal Studios theme park in Osaka Japan.
0:31.0	A journalist dodges to the side as a group of children run past him.
0:35.8	He smiles because he's just as excited today as they are. The journalist is here for the
0:40.6	grand opening of the theme park's newest district, Super Nintendo World.
0:45.5	As a child, the journalist was hooked on video games and today he has the honor of a guided
0:49.7	tour from the creator of Mario himself Shigero Miomoto.
0:54.0	Shigaro approaches wearing a white t-shirt and black blazer looking far younger than his actual age of 68.
1:01.0	The journalist bows and greeting.
1:03.0	It's an honor to meet you, Mr. Miamoto.
1:05.0	Oh, please call me Shigaru.
1:06.6	I will.
1:07.6	Uh, Shigaru.
1:08.6	Thank you for agreeing to show me around today.
1:10.3	I've been looking forward to this for a long time. Oh, so if we. We should have opened last year, you know, but COVID-19, but not even a global pandemic can keep Mario down for long. So let's get started, shall we?
1:22.0	Chigaru gestures behind him to the... for long, so let's get started, shall we?
1:23.0	Shigaru gestures behind him to the front gate of Super Nintendo World.
1:27.2	Park guests enter through a large green pipe.
1:30.1	It only seems apt that we enter Super Nintendo World through one of our war pipes.
1:35.0	The two emerged from the pipe and into the rolling green hills of the mushroom kingdom.
1:40.0	Journalist grins.
1:41.0	Oh, it feels like I'm just in one of the games. Thank you, that was our goal.
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