Game Boyz II Men 01: The Rise of Nintendo (Patreon)

Jeff Gerstmann and Glenn Rubenstein reunite after literal decades to discuss what the heck they were up to in the early 1990s. For Glenn? Months of training to be on the stand as an expert witness in a high-stakes trial. For Jeff? A strong desire to see what the "Super Famicom" was going to be all about. But in the end, one name was absolutely inescapable: Nintendo. In this episode we cover Nintendo's bold moves to reignite North America's dead console market, Sega's weak initial attempts to counter, and... the most ill-advised public access comedy sketch of all time. Welcome to Game Boyz II Men!

A video version of this program is also available here on Patreon. Thanks to all of you for your generous support of this and all my endeavors, I hope you appreciate this regular look back and how the heck I ended up in this weird line of work in the first place and our look at just how different this industry truly was, back before it was filled with public companies and venture capitalists and, well, all the stuff we tend to complain about when it comes to the games business these days. Was it better back in 1991? Uh... not exactly.

-Jeff