So I'm here at Portland Retro Game Gaming Expo with Frank Sepaldi, RetroNots

alumnus and it's the eve of the NES's 30th anniversary in America and I can

think of no other person more appropriate to talk to besides like Masayuki Umura

or someone you know Gilt Hilden maybe I don't know sir Gail Howard

Erakawa but lacking access to them sir Frank I've talked to some of those

people I have well Glimmer that's it but yeah like I guess between the two of us

we've spent a lot of time thinking about this momentous occasion in history

we have and frankly I don't exactly know why you know like I know that

system's important to us but but why are we so compelled by the way it was

initially sold that's actually a good question I guess because it is the

sort of very unique time in sort of the development of video games you know

it represents a couple of landmarks for one thing you know obviously there

had been the whole market crash with console games in the US and see even even

they're happy about the NES's launch no they just like the market crash okay well

I'm happy about that too it's a really cheap after the crash that was that was my

memory yes like oh I can get all these click-o-vision games for five dollars but

no you know it helped resuscitate a market that could have kind of

foundered and vanished I mean you know you saw in the UK like there was no

console market until the 16-bit era because they had cheap inexpensive easy

access PCs that they could play out and so that became the market over there

that could have been the case here but the NES helped kind of push us away

from that and really strengthen the console market here it's also significant

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