Nintendo Blocking Counterfeit Game Machines

An anonymous reader writes "Nintendo won a court case Monday which "prohibits retailers from selling products that look like Nintendo's game controllers from its older Nintendo 64 game console, which can be plugged directly into televisions to play games."" These were apparently being sold nation-wide in mall kiosks. Shady.

Comments

For copyright issues

[Student_Tech]

They didn't pull them just because they looked alike, they pulled them because they were running pirated copies of their games.

A friend of mine saw one last year saw no copyright acknoledgements on the box.

Re:For copyright issues

[bhtooefr]

Nitpick - it's as emulated as your Pentium 4 or Athlon 64 is emulating an x86 (actually, less - the P4 and A64 translate their instructions to RISC, but they do it in hardware). This is in hardware - it's a single chip with a 6502 and all of the stuff in the NES.

Nothing to see here move along.

[kabocox]

The article states that Nintendo is slapping down a company that is pirating its older inventory. You know those controllers that you plug into the A/V that let you play a few simple games? Some company decided to put Mario and Donkey Kong in theirs without paying Nintendo any money. Of course, Nintendo is going to be upset.

Re:What an ungrateful asshat.

[xaqar]

Dear assmonkey,
I did not throw a fit to my wife first of all. You see, my wife and I have this thing where we talk about stuff, without being angry at each other. I told her I appreciated it, and explained to her that it was a bootleg product. She was surprised and a little upset that she had been taken. I know it's hard to understand how a successful normal relationship works, since you've probably never even talked to a woman. That's alright though. You'll get there someday.
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