insertcredit.com - 8/26/2008
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powerglove.jpg Frank was browsing around the google patent archives , and happened upon a few game patents. Then I started poking around, and found a few more. It's really worth browsing through in full...poking at 'related patents' is particularly rewarding. You can find tons of stuff that didn't come out, or didn't come out as initially devised. They've all got illustrations, which helps ...
press.nintendo.com - 9/2/2008
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press.nintendo.com —
NINTENDO DS FANS HAVE A HOT NEW COLOR
FOR THE FALL: METALLIC SILVER Sept. 2, 2008 In...
some venues, silver is the color of second place. For Nintendo DS, silver is No. 1. Starting Sept. 7, Metallic Silver joins the Nintendo DS color palette. The new ...
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Welcome to Nintendo of America's Media Site
joystiq.com - 9/2/2008
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joystiq.com —
Just when you thought Nintendo was out of
colors to release the DS in here in North...
America, along comes the Metallic Silver DS, which is sort of like the DS(s?) you already own except ... it's silver. This particular color has already been in Japan ...
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Metallic Silver DS coming this fall
multiplayerblog.mtv.com - 8/28/2008
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multiplayerblog.mtv.com —
'Wii Fit' The challenge of finding a Wii
console, even more than 18 months since the system’s...
launch has been well-chronicled. But who yet weeps for the consumer struggling to find a copy of “Wii Fit“? Nintendo’s exercise game appears to be in very ...
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MTV Multiplayer » Nintendo To Frustrated ...
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Vintage never-made game patents from Nintendo and Sega
Boing Boing —
... Chris Baker sez: "Brandon Sheffield, editor in chief of Game Developer magazine and creator of site InsertCredit, dug around in the Google patent archives and found some cool old patents by game companies like Nintendo and Sony. My faves are Sega's pimp VR headset (circa 1992, shown above) and a crazy racing game with a toy car that you mount in front of your TV."
( Lisa Katayama is a guest blogger.)
Link (Thanks, Baker!)
Old Sega patents found in the depths of the Internet
Technology - Channel Feed —
... of the 128-bit generation). Perhaps not quite up there with the original NES pad, but when people see that little screen and tiny button the Dreamcast is the first thing that springs to mind (or at least it should be).
Check out more on the VMU’s original designs, here.
Well that’s it from what the guys at Insert Credit found from Sega. But I’m sure there’s bound to be more random stuff out there (I’m just too damn lazy to search myself).
[Source: InsertCredit Via BoingBoing]
[Images from GooglePatents]
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