19) Nintendo patents
A warning to companies that produce clip-on peripherals for the Wii remote: Nintendo owns the patent to practically every gizmo you could ever dream of. From bicycles to eyewear, fishing rods to weird lightsaber things, if it fits on the remote, Nintendo already thought of it. Planning to make a teddy bear with a remote in its tummy? Sorry - Nintendo got there first.
20) Gaming pills
We’ve long been able to buy all sorts of herbal supplements that supposedly enhance our intelligence or improve our sporting abilities. It was only a matter of time before somebody got the idea of combining these mental and physical tonics in one handy pill, to give us a better chance of pwning unsuspecting noobs or just getting through Luigi’s purple coin challenge in Galaxy. Can it possibly work any better than a big bottle of cola and a tube of Pringles?
Mar 21, 2008
