Soundbite: Gail Tilden on working at Nintendo of America in its early years

Nintendo Power founding editor and former Nintendo of America marketing executive Gail Tilden remembers her beginnings at the company — before the NES, before Nintendo Power, and even before desktop publishing. Head to https://lifeandtimes.games/episodes/files/soundbite-gail-tilden for a full transcript of the soundbite. This interview was conducted for an article about the launch of the Game Boy, Tetris, and Pokemon in the West — which you can find at https://www.polygon.com/2019/4/19/18295061/game-boy-history-timeline-tetris-pokemon-nintendo  To get access to supporter-only soundbites, and early access to soundbites like this one, you can subscribe via Patreon — where anybody donating $3 or more per month also gets ad-free high-bitrate downloads of every episode plus various other bonuses. Learn more at lifeandtimes.games/donate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices