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🗓️ 11 June 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Cast your memories back to the strange days of the 1980s and 1990s -- boy howdy, things were weird. At some point, marketing executives the world round realized that video games could be a new, powerful field of advertising. In the first part of this special two-part series, Ben, Noel and Max dive into the ridiculous evolution of video game tie-ins, from soda pop mascots to the notorious Noid of Domino's pizza (along with the tragic story behind the fall of the Noid).
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0:00.0 | Ridiculous history is a production of I Heart Radio. The Welcome back to the show Ridiculous Historians. Thank you as always so much for |
0:31.0 | tuning in. Let's hear it for the man, the myth, our very own |
0:35.0 | Dily Bob sound, super producer Mr Max Williams. |
0:38.0 | Dilly Bob sounds amazing. Like, |
0:41.0 | Binnop-op. |
0:42.0 | Oh, right, right, like, |
0:45.0 | right, right, right, right, right, right, how does one become a myth, you know? |
0:47.0 | Is the myth that is a myth the same as a legend? |
0:50.0 | What is the Noide considered? |
0:52.0 | A myth or a legend or an urban legend? |
0:54.8 | The Noid is, I think at this point, considered a mascot. It would need a couple of centuries |
1:00.0 | for there to be a legend of the Noade for me. |
1:04.5 | But we can see it for me. |
1:05.7 | Now, I'm Ben Bullin, you're an old round. |
1:08.4 | And I got a side note to kick us off with |
1:10.4 | because it seems very fitting for today's episode. You guys know my sound cue that's at the |
1:14.4 | beginning of the episode. Yes. It's a ship of thesis. It is something I'm adding more on to and |
1:19.3 | changing throughout time. You maniac. But the original of it, I don't know if told you guys, it's a |
1:25.1 | Game Boy SP advance turning on one going forwards, one backwards. That's what it is. |
1:29.7 | The secrets have been revealed. The secrets have been revealed. The secrets have been revealed. |
1:34.0 | We've saved all the posts that will get on ridiculous historians, |
1:39.0 | but folks, if you are on our Facebook group, |
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