Comedy duo Yoiko checks out Suika Game

Nintendo is back with another video featuring Yoiko, a popular comedy duo in Japan. Once again, the comedians have visited their friends at Nintendo to go hands-on with a game, but this time around they’re enjoying a game that needs no introduction.

Yoiko is a Japanese comic duo from Konohana-ku, Osaka that is employed by the comedy talent agency Shochiku Geino. Yoiko are known otakus, and the duo (kombi) was originally formed under the pretense of Shinya Arino as the boke (stooge) and Masaru Hamaguchi as the tsukkomi (straightman), but as time went on and Hamaguchi’s “natural stupidness” started to shine through, the duo became known as “the duo with no real distinction between the boke and the tsukkomi”. (h/t Wiki)

In today’s video, Yoiko sits down to play the one and only Suika Game. This cozy puzzler has been an absolute phenomenon since launching, and it just reached 5 million units sold yesterday. Now it’s time for Yoiko to get in on the trend and see what Suika Game is all about!