Nintendo Patents Insanity?!

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| Nintendo Patents Insanity |
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| posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday August 30, @13:05 (Patents) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/30/1645253 |
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{0}theodp writes "Nintendo scored a patent Tuesday for a {1}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. http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=6,935,954

Nintendo's going crazy and wants to take us all with them. Too bad I'm already there ahead of them. :P

[Razola]

Apple didn't patent the iPod until after it started producing them, therefore allowing Microsoft an opportunity to potentially get loads of royalty money.

It's called "covering your ass", welcome to "silly stuff that happens every day."

[Master of Paradox]

So now Nintendo holds the patent for that concept from Eternal Darkness. Well, it's not like it's illegal - the "insanity effects" are fairly new intellectual property - but still.

[Mewfour]

Holy shit, I thought I was the only guy who immediately knew what game that was.

But yeah, good move by Nintendo. Those Insanity effects in ED really made the game.

[SupremeChampion]

[i]yea, it's a good move. i mean, that way they don't have to worry about people stealing their ideas for games and such, right?

~The Italian Stallion