Sued by Nintendo
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·November 10, 2025n4bz0r
Somehow expected to see way more cases given the page covers even the ancient ones (1989).
Some of the cases are so ridiculously evil, I'm beginning to think they have black marketing division that mostly consists of lawyers.
stemlord
This doesn't seem exhaustive though I guess I'd be super impressed if it were. For example I watched a pokemon dataset get taken down then go back up under a new name a couple times from huggingface sometime in 2023-24, fairly certain they were getting c&d
oceansky
This really sucks. I can see why they are protective of the IP, but some fan games seems entirely harmless as long as it's not being monetized.
Waterluvian
I’m guessing this is just cherry picking cases that go against the mood of the community. I bet there’s a mountain of C&Ds not listed for less objectionable violations such as the Mario shovelware slop littering app stores for years.
tempaccountabcd
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Not all suits but threatened suits. Nintendo claimed ownership of world maps in platform games ala Super Mario 3 and Super Mario World. If you were making a game that had one in the early 90s and you were shipping in Nintendo you got a letter that in so many words said, "Change your game or get sued AND lose your permission to publish on NES/SNES/Gameboy"
Nintendo also claimed a patent on showing a ghost image of your previous race (the ghost car in Mario Kart)