Gail gets thrust into a 'stewardship' team who manages everything from t-shirts, comics, cards, mags, etc and realizes she's at a "funnel" point for a bunch of media. And starts to see that Nintendo is a really big deal. #PRGEtalks

acuppa Pokemon Masters are holding court today. Gail Tilden from Nintendo and @frankcifaldi.bsky.social from @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social are discussing how big business licensing caused a lil monster revolution or two #PRGEtalks

It's got the MN gambling addiction number on it! #PRGEtalks

Lottery, network infrastructure, and security was all managed by Control Data Corporation and Nintendo. This was ran by the late Peter Eck. #PRGEtalks

Freddy Pharkus became the first game published as reference review in a pharmacological journal?? "They weren't much of fans" #PRGEtalks

Larry 5 had no deaths in it after years of people complaining about lose conditions, and nobody even noticed so Larry 6 "we're back to killing players. And we killed A LOT of people." - Al #PRGEtalks

After years of network work, Al Lowe gets out of that nightmare project and someone cracks a joke like "Larry 4 now" and Al says with Weird Al sarcasm: "Noooo Larry 5" and then realized that fixes his story direction issue with Larry 3 ending perfectly. #PRGEtalks

After the third in the polyester trilogy [Ken Williams] said 'make an ultima online' and Al said "okay" and proceeded to connect hundreds of networks which became the ImagiNation network and sold to AT&T #PRGEtalks

Al Lowe wrote the Leisure Suit Larry ragtime theme, Larry's Song, in about 25 minutes before dinner and shipped it "No one's ever gonna hear this anyways." #PRGEtalks

"I love watching the smash reaction videos and the Banjo one brings tears to my eyes. It's quite flattering" - GK #PRGEtalks

"An agent told me Capcom needed a famous American composer for Street Fighter. And I said 'well I'm a composer.' but then I got the assignment, found it was hip-hop, and I was like 'how did I get here?'" - GK #PRGEtalks

Before working as composer at Rare, Grant Kirkhope opened for arena rock acts like Bon Jovi in his UK band Little Angels #PRGEtalks

Sonic Adventure made $42 million on its first day, which almost doubled the Day-1 sales of the incredibly newsworthy Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace ($28.5m) - that's the moment Ryan Drummond (Sonic) knew he had a hit #PRGEtalks

"Roberta Williams taught me to what ectent The Colossal Cave itself is a main character. So while making Mystery House the house itself is a 'ghost' of sorts." - Marcus Mera #PRGEtalks

The Phantom Fellows has a notebook for managing inportant info and so Paul Korman's design inspired Marcus Mera's work on Mystery House to have a way to deliver storybeats and info that isn't just NPCs talking to the player. Variety is the spice of info-gain #PRGEtalks

Amazing to see that Retronauts are 20 years deep into turning video podcasts into audio-only, enabling Jeremy's "metroidvania fetish", and predicting what future Nintendo games would be #PRGEtalks

"I thought my machine was broken when I got the score bug and I sold the board for like $400. Someone out there has that board and probably doesn't even know it." - Weibe #PRGEtalks

"I'd prepare for live sessions like a marathon. Listened to a lot of Roll The Bones" - Weibe #PRGEtalks

"If you're struggling, take a break ... Go do something different. Tell yourself, this is part of getting better. Of course you can't if you are in an arcade." - Weibe #PRGEtalks

Steve Weibe is talking about 'elevator screens' and 'two guys' and 'Kong forums'. The way he talks about play through colloquial symbols and the entire room nods audibly is incredibly cool. #PRGEtalks