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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. Call of Cthulhu ? by morcego · · Score: 5, Informative

    I wonder of the writers/copyright holders of Call of Cthulhu would say to that.

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  2. Details by HD+Webdev · · Score: 5, Informative

    Filed: December 14, 2000
    PCT Filed: December 14, 2000
    PCT NO: PCT/US00/33717
    371 Date: September 3, 2002
    102(e) Date: September 3, 2002
    PCT PUB.NO.: WO01/62359
    PCT PUB. Date: August 30, 2001

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    This is not a dream, not a dream...we are transmitting from the year 1-9-9-9.
  3. Nethack! by Tiredoflurkin · · Score: 5, Informative

    Rogue/ Nethack had this 20 YEARS ago, albeit in ASCII.

  4. Re:Eternal Darkness? by RPI+Geek · · Score: 5, Informative

    From TFA:

    Filed: December 14, 2000

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    - "Nobody came out that night, not one was ever seen. But Old Man Stauf is waiting there, crazy sick and mean!"