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Nintendo's Origins
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What Carmack Did at Id Was So Incredible
John Carmack, one of these geniuses that Yamuchi was identified and talking about, had engineered a way for generic PCs to do side scrolling graphics like the NES. They did a micro-ed software that enabled it and then they famously made a demo version of Super Mario Brothers 3 for the PC and showed it to Nintendo. You can find video, we'll link to it in the show notes. you can find video that came out decades after the fact of the actual demo that Carmack coded up. I think somebody found it on an old machine at some point in time recently.
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