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Nintendo steamrolling pirated software (Netherlands, 1994)

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Bulbul

Bulbul

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kappa_krey said:
Some creepy-ass photos...

...Yeah I'm not a fan of Nintendo's overly zealous efforts in stopping piracy. Not necessarily referring to this case, but more in general. Or what they perceive to be violations of IP rights, like shutting down that fanmade Metroid game or having people remove tourney ARMS footage. Way to kill free advertising for your games, there :/
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Pirated Gameboy cartridges were everywhere during that time, some were sold as legit by shops.

Save states deleted mere months after playing ... Imagine collecting video games and then finding out years later that your whole collection was fake, I was heart broken. All my GB and GBA collections were fake.
 
famikon

famikon

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RabbidPeach said:
Looks more like 1894.
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pretty much :)

especially this one

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kappa_krey

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Bulbul said:
Pirated Gameboy cartridges were everywhere during that time, some were sold as legit by shops.

Save states deleted mere months after playing ... Imagine collecting video games and then finding out years later that your whole collection was fake, I was heart broken. All my GB and GBA collections were fake.
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Yeah, that's the part that feeds into the creepy. There's a certain intrigue to pirated games/hardware at that time however b/c it wasn't as simple as getting an ARM and slapping ready-done emulators and ROMs onto cheap flash like it is these days.

Some of the illegal stuff of that period looks like it involved some pretty oddball hardware to get done, or "interesting" means of accessing the chips at least.
 
KnightimeX

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*shrugs*
Since emulation was starting to take off back then those pictures really didn't do anything except encourage emulation to thrive even more.
Maybe not directly but I'm sure some kind of influence kickstart something Nintendo never wanted.

Never run though a dry forest with a torch to burn a wooden cabin down.
Sure you got the cabin but what about the now burning forest?

GG Nintendo
 
wrowa

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Cracks me up they send a guy in a Mario costume to celebrate the occasion.

It also cracks me up how ugly these Mario costumes used to be, that's the stuff of nightmares.
 
Kcannon

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KnightimeX said:
*shrugs*
Since emulation was starting to take off back then those pictures really didn't do anything except encourage emulation to thrive even more.
Maybe not directly but I'm sure some kind of influence kickstart something Nintendo never wanted.

Never run though a dry forest with a torch to burn a wooden cabin down.
Sure you got the cabin but what about the now burning forest?

GG Nintendo
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I'm not sure people around the world were aware of what seemed to be an odd Dutch "marketing" campaign. After all, it took this long for it to surface. And good internet didn't exist back then.
 
7threst

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As a Dutch guy, at the time I thought this was a world wide thing as Nintendo was huge at the time (still is, but no internet and Nintendomination and all that), but all the reactions here points towards a big "no" combined with a "wtf???" lol
 
KnightimeX

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Kcannon said:
I'm not sure people around the world were aware of what seemed to be an odd Dutch "marketing" campaign. After all, it took this long for it to surface. And good internet didn't exist back then.
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I don't think they never needed to.
Didn't need good internet back then.
Well... dial up was obviously better than nothing.
 
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SoH

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7threst said:
As a Dutch guy, at the time I thought this was a world wide thing as Nintendo was huge at the time (still is, but no internet and Nintendomination and all that), but all the reactions here points towards a big "no" combined with a "wtf???" lol
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I've known Nintendo has had a hard stance against bootlegs and piracy going back to the famicom, particularly in Asia. The number of famiclones feels countless.

Mario literally steamrolling bootleg game boy boxes? Definitely first I have come across. Your country seems pretty frickin' wild!
 
mas8705

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*looks at the Mario Images*

Why do I get the feeling that we're going to get a Mario creepypasta on this? Much like most things back in the day, mascots were scary as all hell to look at.
 

Fredrik

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Seeing someone destroy fully functional things just makes me sad, the could've used it as charity instead in some poor country where kids can't afford games.
 
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