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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. Eternal Darkness. by Gen.+Rasputin+X · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The only game I can recall with a decent sanity system was Eternal Darkness for the gamecube. I'm sure there were others, but that was the only one that left an impression on me.

    The Silent Hill games have an insanity system, but it's less related to the characters and more related to the world.

    In theory, the new Cthulhu game has a sanity system, which may count as prior art, and that brings up an interesting idea. Does a system that has been developed but not yet released count as prior art?

    I'm just hopeful that this leads to some new games exploring insanity.