Axodys 10C Edition

📚Originally published in 1993, Game Over: How Nintendo Conquered The World was a fascinating look at the rise of Nintendo as a video game power through the 80s and early 90s¹ after the initial industry boom and bust of the early 80s.

1. I'd kind of forgotten how the Seattle Mariner's were saved from leaving Seattle when Nintendo's CEO at the time, Hiro Yamauchi, agreed to purchase them. The backlash and American xenophobia about potentially having Japanese ownership at the time is completely unfathomable now given that the first 10 years of Nintendo ownership are still peak Mariners baseball. Sadly, I would say that Nintendo ownership of the Mariners stopped being a good thing about 2004 when sub .500 teams became the norm rather than the exception again.