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{{quote2|Indeed, I am the richest person in the world, Bill Gates!|Bill Gates|[[Shitamachi Ninjō Gekijō]]}}
{{quote|いかにも私は世界一の金持ちビル・ゲイツなのば! <small>(Indeed, I am the richest person in the world, Bill Gates!)</small>|Bill Gates|[[Shitamachi Ninjō Gekijō]]}}
'''{{wp|Bill Gates|William Henry Gates III}}''' is an American business magnate, software developer, investor, author, and philanthropist. He is known for founding {{wp|Microsoft}}, for being the richest man in the world during various years, and, more controversially, for his cutthroat business practices during his tenure as a Microsoft executive.
[[File:Bill Gates 2.png|200px|left|thumb|Bill Gates explains to [[Mario]] and [[Toad]] how Windows 95 is meant to be used.]]
'''{{wp|Bill Gates}}''' appears in the [[Super Mario (franchise)|''Super Mario'' franchise]] as a software developer and the founder of {{wp|Microsoft}}, like in real life. He appears only in the February 20, 1996 broadcast of the live-action version of ''[[Shitamachi Ninjō Gekijō]]'',<ref>{{cite|author=Kiddo Cabbusses's Unpoplar Obscurities|date=January 30, 2019|url=www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND6G72LeG6c|title=kukun kun kut - Mario and Toad Use Windows 95? (Lilly Franky 2/20/1996)|publisher=YouTube|language=Japanese|accessdate=March 29, 2019}}</ref> where he is represented by a plush of the titular character of ''{{wp|Tensai Bakabon}}''.
 
In the broadcast, Bill Gates makes his entrance while [[Toad]] and [[Mario]] are disputing who will get to ride {{wp|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.  


[[File:Bill Gates 2.jpg|200px|left|thumb|Bill Gates explains to [[Mario]] and [[Toad]] the true purpose of Windows 95.]]
In the [[Super Mario (franchise)|''Super Mario'' franchise]], Bill Gates appears in the February 20, 1996 broadcast of ''[[Shitamachi Ninjō Gekijō]]'',<ref>{{cite|author=Kiddo Cabbusses's Unpoplar Obscurities|date=January 30, 2019|url=www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND6G72LeG6c|title=kukun kun kut - Mario and Toad Use Windows 95? (Lilly Franky 2/20/1996)|publisher=YouTube|language=Japanese|accessdate=March 29, 2019}}</ref> where his is represented by a plush of the titular character of ''{{wp|Tensai Bakabon}}''. Bill Gates makes his entrance while [[Toad]] and [[Mario]] are disputing who will get to ride {{wp|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.
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Bill Gates
Bill Gates makes his appearance in "High-Tech Banchō"
Full name William Henry Gates III
Species Human
First appearance Shitamachi Ninjō Gekijō (1996)
“いかにも私は世界一の金持ちビル・ゲイツなのば! (Indeed, I am the richest person in the world, Bill Gates!)
Bill Gates, Shitamachi Ninjō Gekijō
Bill Gates demonstrates the true purpose of the Windows 95 in "High-Tech Banchō"
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 the live-action version 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

  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.