{"podcast":{"title":"An Old Timey Podcast","slug":"an-old-timey-podcast-6888779","podcast_index_feed_id":6888779,"rss_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5130139.rss","website_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5130139","image_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/41607609.jpg","author":"An Old Timey Podcast","episode_count":103,"summary":"History class just got hilariously inappropriate. Kristin Caruso, co-host of the true crime comedy podcast, Let’s Go To Court (16M+ downloads), and Norman Caruso, creator of the Gaming Historian YouTube channel (1M+ subscribers), team up to deliver a history podcast that is well researched, wide-ranging, and deeply silly. In other words, this is a podcast for intellectuals. Intellectuals who make fart jokes.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/an-old-timey-podcast-6888779"},"episode":{"title":"99: The Story of Donkey Kong (Part 1)","slug":"99-the-story-of-donkey-kong-part-1","published_at":"2026-04-15T12:12:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/an-old-timey-podcast-6888779/99-the-story-of-donkey-kong-part-1","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/an-old-timey-podcast-6888779","url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8887892","audio_url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/audioboom.com/posts/8887892.mp3?modified=1777903814&sid=5130139&source=rss","summary":"Nintendo was in trouble. It was 1980, and they’d just poured a ton of money into an arcade game they’d hoped would be a hit. They called it Radar Scope. It was a massive flop. In a panic, the company rushed to create a new game that they hoped would make good use out of all their unsold Radar Scope arcade cabinets. That game – Donkey Kong – took the world by storm. Nintendo basked in the success of their new game. They had no idea that a massive lawsuit was headed their way. Remember, kids, history hoes always cite their sources! For this episode, Norm pulled from: Audureau, William. The History of Mario . Pix’n Love, 2014. Internet Archive. “Universal v. Nintendo Court Documents.” 2026. https://archive.org/details/universal-v-nintendo-court-documents . Sheff, David. Game Over: How Nintendo Zapped an American Industry, Captured Your Dollars, and Enslaved Your Children . Random House, Inc., 1993. Are you enjoying An Old Timey Podcast? Then please leave us a 5-star rating and review wherever you listen to podcasts! Are you *really* enjoying An Old Timey Podcast? Well, calm down, history ho! You can get more of us on Patreon at patreon.com/oldtimeypodcast . At the $5 level, you’ll get a monthly bonus episode (with video!), access to our 90’s style chat room, plus the entire back catalog of bonus episodes from Kristin’s previous podcast, Let’s Go To Court.","meta_description":"Nintendo was in trouble. It was 1980, and they’d just poured a ton of money into an arcade game they’d hoped would be a hit. They called it Radar Scope. I…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4684,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/an-old-timey-podcast-6888779/episodes/99-the-story-of-donkey-kong-part-1/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/an-old-timey-podcast-6888779/99-the-story-of-donkey-kong-part-1.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}