Mike Drucker on Working at Nintendo, the Switch 2 and Localizing Kid Icarus Uprising
The Kit & Krysta Podcast
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🗓️ 23 May 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Hello! We're joined by very special guest, Mike Drucker - former Nintendo employee who worked in the Nintendo Treehouse localizing and writing for games like The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword AND Kid Icarus Uprising. Mike just wrote an amazing new book where he tells a lot of fun behind the scenes Nintendo stories. Mike is the best so we hope you enjoy this video. Links to the books are here!
Good Game, No Rematch
https://www.amazon.com/Good-Game-No-Rematch-Video/dp/1335012699
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| 0:00.0 | We are so excited to have special guest, Mike Drucker. |
| 0:04.3 | Welcome. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome. |
| 0:05.7 | Former Nintendo employee, but that is not your, like, greatest credit. |
| 0:09.5 | You're also someone that has worked on Saturday Night Live, the Today Show. |
| 0:14.5 | And also... |
| 0:15.3 | The Tonight Show. |
| 0:16.2 | I'm sorry. |
| 0:16.4 | That's a very different thing. |
| 0:18.2 | The Today Show is not funny. |
| 0:19.9 | The Today Show is not funny at all. |
| 0:21.1 | Why did I say that? |
| 0:22.0 | The Tonight Show is much more funny. |
| 0:24.8 | But most importantly, you worked on the localization for Zelda and Kidacris at Nintendo in the Treehouse. |
| 0:32.7 | Thank you. |
| 0:33.4 | You've earned our respect already. |
| 0:34.6 | Snaps to you. |
| 0:35.7 | But most recently, you have written a very good and very funny book that we've both been reading called Good Game No Rematch. So congratulations. And you're going to be here. We're going to be chatting about all sorts of stuff, all sorts of former Nintendo stuff, and just picking your brain on your experience there and what you got up to and also this great |
| 0:55.4 | book that you've written. So, thanks for coming on the show. Thank you very much for having me. |
| 0:58.9 | Thank you, folks. Yeah, it's this interesting thing that we had a couple years of overlap working at |
| 1:05.1 | Nintendo of America, but I don't think we have had an in-person conversation until now. Yeah. Why? Why did you avoid us? I think because while I was at Nintendo, I was just, because I was only there for like two or three years. So I think like half the time I was like, just don't make them mad at me. Just don't make them mad at me. And it's such a nice place to work, but I was like, I don't want to, I don't want to lose this. You were like walking on eggshells. Right. I mean, God, the one time I played, I mentioned this in the book, but the one time I played basketball with Reggie and was on his team and passed to the wrong person was maybe top ten terrifying moments in my life. But you weren't the one that like whacked him in the nose and gave him a bloody nose, right? |
| 1:46.6 | No, that's hard to come back down. |
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