Bill Gates

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Bill Gates
A crudely made puppet of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates that appeared in an obscure virtual magazine produced for the Satellaview peripheral of the Super Famicom (Japanese SNES).
Full name William Henry Gates III
Species Human
First appearance Shitamachi Ninjō Gekijō (1996)
“Indeed, I am the richest person in the world, Bill Gates!”
Bill Gates, Shitamachi Ninjō Gekijō
Screenshot from an obscure virtual magazine produced for the Satellaview peripheral of the Super Famicom (Japanese SNES). A crudely made doll of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates explains to plushes of Mario and Toad the true purpose of the Windows 95 operating system.
Bill Gates explains to Mario and Toad how Windows 95 is meant to be used.

Bill Gates appears in the Super Mario franchise as a software developer and the founder of Microsoft, like in real life. He appears only in the February 20, 1996 broadcast of Shitamachi Ninjō Gekijō,[1] where he is represented by a plush of the titular character of Tensai Bakabon.

In the broadcast, Bill Gates makes his entrance while Toad and Mario are disputing who will get to ride Windows 95 (which they believe to be a vehicle). Toad mistakes Gates for a "beer company poster girl" (a pun on the similarity between the Japanese writing for "Bill" and "Beer"), but Gates tells him that he is wrong. Mario recognizes the man as Bill Gates and both he and Toad ask him to give them money. Bill Gates blankly stares at them and explains that Windows 95 is not a vehicle, but "something you wear on your head." The pair dismiss him as an idiot and the skit ends.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Kiddo Cabbusses's Unpoplar Obscurities (January 30, 2019). kukun kun kut - Mario and Toad Use Windows 95? (Lilly Franky 2/20/1996). YouTube (Japanese). Retrieved March 29, 2019.