Fuck nintendo. I really hope this blows up in their face like their stupid fucking "King Kong is dk" lawsuit. Fucking bullies. The irony that they blatantly stole the designs of pokemon from dragon quest but are butthurt at palworld for pAtEnT vIoLaTiOn is gross. So glad I just pirate their shit.

[–] grim@szmer.info 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Wasn't universal the plaintiff in the king kong case?

[–] villainy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yep.

Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Nintendo Co., Ltd.

Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Nintendo Co., Ltd. was a 1983 legal case heard by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York by Judge Robert W. Sweet. In their complaint, Universal Studios alleged that Nintendo's video game Donkey Kong was a trademark infringement of King Kong, the plot and characters of which Universal claimed as their own. Nintendo argued that Universal had themselves proven that King Kong's plot and characters were in the public domain in Universal City Studios, Inc. v. RKO General, Inc.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

its wild they're now essentually doing the bullshit Universal did

[–] p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yup, my bad. Still, fuck nintendo