Have you ever wondered how the McDonald's Happy Meal became the best-selling meal of all time?

Or who's really behind that bottle of Serrautia living in your fridge?

Or why almost every house in America has at least one game of Monopoly?

Introducing the best idea yet, a brand new podcast about the untold origin stories of iconic

products and the people who made them go viral.

Like, did you know that Super Mario, the best-selling video game character of all time only exists because

Nintendo couldn't get the rights to Popeye? Or that the idea for the McDonald's Happy Meal first came from a mom in

Guatemala? Every week on the best idea yet, they'll be digging into a new product in its story,

from the Happy Meal to Super Mario Brothers to Air Jordans.

You're obsessed with these products, but you'll never believe their surprising origin stories.

I'm about to play a clip from The Best Idea yet.

While you're listening, follow The Best Idea yet on the Wondery app,

or wherever you get your podcasts. broadcasts. It's the sound of arcade parlors taking over the world.

Come on, give me five more minutes.

Yeah, it is, if you were to walk into an arcade in the late 1970s,

you'd see hordes of young people gripping joysticks and gazing

into the pixelated void. Space games were actually all the rage thanks to the

smash-hit space invaders in 1978. In fact, get this, that single space game, Space Invaders, it helped drive

arcade revenues to triple in just two years. This is the golden age of arcades.

Yes it is.

Especially in America.

So in 1980, Nintendo launches a bunch of games,

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