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Nintendo Blocking Counterfeit Game Machines

Posted by Zonk on from the old-games-still-have-owners dept.

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.

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  1. For copyright issues by Student_Tech · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.