Nintendo

[School of Everything Else 2017]

Welcome to a show which explores why, after decades of producing consoles and video games, Nintendo feels special in a way that the others do not. More than two dozen people have recorded their memories and insight and sent them to me to arrange. A picture begins to emerge of a troubled relationship with someone capable of amazing creative endeavours and baffling business decisions. Someone who many of us can never fully let go because of the power of these happy memories of childhood, family and the hundreds of gaming worlds which we charted together (some of us literally, you had to draw your maps in pencil back then).

As the Switch is launched we look back on what the emergence of a new console meant to us, and why we always come back to a place of hope.

Infinite thank yous to my guests, without which this show would not have been possible.

1.   Intro*
2.   Brendan Agnew of Cinapse
3.   Sam Chapter
4.   James Batchelor of Bond and Beyond
5.   Collin
6.   Daniel Floyd of Extra Credits
7.   Daniel Den Heijer
8.   Toby Jungius
9.   James Carter of Cane and Rinse
10.   Joshua Garrity of Cane and Rinse
11.   My Old Friend Nintendo (Alex)
12.   Paschal Dooley
13.   Chris O Regan of Spong
14.   Leon Cox of Cane and Rinse
15.   Blast Processing (Lyra)
16.   Bob Chipman of Geek.com
17.   Neil Taylor of TheKiddDogg
18.   Nama Chibitty
19.   Derrick Ritchie
20.   James Perkins of The Digital Fix
21.   Gary and Imogen Blower of GameBurst
22.   Dan Mayer
23.   Darren Gargette of Cane and Rinse
24.   Holly Dotson
25.   Player 1 & Player 2 of Cartridge Bros
26.   Jason Slate of The Mana Pool
27.   Matt Wardle
28.   Laureta Sela of New Century
29.   Alex Shaw
30.   Lyra Shaw

*Voices in the opening montage also include Alexander Jahans, Gustav Dahl and Johan Kristian Milde