After months of having *many* Chrome tabs open, Josh (Boney) has completed research on the background of Super Mario Land's producer and director, Gunpei Yokoi and Satoru Okada respectively, and so alongside Andrew (Gilly), the two finally sit down to go over an extended look at two important figures from Nintendo's R&D1 Team.

Next episode we will review and discuss the game itself - Super Mario Land, so stay on that RSS feed, listeners!

Articles used in research for this show:

⁠1950s Karuta Report⁠

⁠Searching for Gunpei Yokoi⁠

⁠Ultra Hand (1966)⁠

⁠Ultra Machine (1967-1974)⁠

⁠Block Crater (1969)⁠

⁠Lefty RX (1972)⁠

⁠Laser Clay (1973)⁠

⁠Kôsenjû Duck Hunt (1976)⁠

⁠Ten Billion (1980⁠⁠)⁠

⁠Game and Watch⁠

⁠Yokoi and Kenji Eno talk about the Game Boy⁠

Satoru Okada Interviews with ⁠4gamer.net⁠

...and ⁠retrogamer.net⁠

⁠Koto Laboratory’s Kunekunetchyo and Professor Henoheno⁠

⁠Yokoi and Yukihito Morikawa talk a little more about the Gameboy⁠

Interview centred on the ⁠Wii and DS with Satoru Iwata⁠

Special thanks to the Before Mario Blog by Erik Voskuil, please check out the beautiful ⁠Before Mario coffee table book ⁠to support his fantastic work.

Send us your unpatented and medium definining inventions (or just questions) at: [email protected]

Joshua Bone - Practicing his digital clay pigeon shooting

Andrew Gilmore - Dreaming of the Power Joy

All music and sound effects from the god king, Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka.