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Nintendo Patents Insanity

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the please-tell-me-this-is-a-joke dept.

theodp writes "Nintendo scored a patent Tuesday for a Sanity system for video game, which covers causing a game character to hallucinate - e.g., see bleeding walls and hear maniacal laughter - as its sanity decreases in response to encountering a creature or gruesome situation."

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  1. Not a bad idea by Adapt+or+Die · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ...seeing that all of the nintendo fan-boys minds are going to collapse when the revolution controller comes out and isn't the glory that they all imagined it to be.

  2. Re:Eternal Darkness? by millahtime · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Way to patent something years after you put out the product!

    There must be some good legal reason for this. Anyone from Microsoft have any more insight into this?

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