There are probably many more things that I’ve forgotten or that have escaped my notice. There are also things like default names, which had a set of Beatles names that was cut from EarthBound. Trucks that had a vague Coca-Cola logo lookalike were changed to something else Andonuts’ flying machine, the Sky Walker, was changed to the Sky Runner for obvious Star Wars reasons Grateful Dead Valley had to be changed to Peaceful Rest Valleyĭr. They even noticed and changed things like the nurses’ hospital hats. A recent example is hereĪnd they didn’t half-ass their legal combing. Red hospital crosses had to be removed, because it’s a trademark of the Red Cross organization and they’re very anal about its use. The Runaway Five were too similar to the Blues Brothers so their suits had to be changed A lot of changes had to be made before the 1995 legal squad then gave its approval: In fact, Nintendo DID have a problem with a lot of stuff in EarthBound back in 1995. Why is this stuff a problem now?Īnother common question is, “Why is this a problem now? They released EarthBound like 15 years ago and this stuff wasn’t a problem.” I’m not a lawyer, but if I can find this stuff out, paid expert professionals can probably find 100x more. I do know that Salvador Dali’s estate is extremely protective of how his name and works are used, so I wouldn’t be surprised if the Dali’s Clock enemy would’ve been changed in some way, name-wise and/or graphics-wise. I bet a lot of little things like that would’ve been changed. Which reminds me, EarthBound has its share of yo-yos too. This seems ridiculous to us, but the legal folks obviously did their homework, because in Canada a company owns a trademark for that term. The legal team didn’t allow it to get released until every instance of “Yo-Yo” was changed (it got changed to “Star”, incidentally). I don’t play many Virtual Console games, but one easy example I do know about is StarTropics. If the legal team feels uneasy with anything – even the tiniest thing – then they won’t give their approval. The point is to stay out of court altogther. This is an important point that I think many people don’t understand. Having this team of legal people is cheaper than putting up with every lawsuit that every crazy money-hungry company hits them with. It doesn’t matter if they could clearly successfully win lawsuits brought against them they’d still lose money in the process. The point is: they’re trying to avoid lawsuits in the first place. Then these things are fixed if necessary. To avoid crap lawsuits, Nintendo has a team of legal people who have to go through everything Nintendo plans to release and look for anything that can cause potential lawsuits. Of course, if you lose, you’ll lose a lot more, but just having to go to court will cost a whole lot of money. Whether you win or lose a case in court, you’re going to pay a LOT of money defending yourself. – but there was an internal mistake (sound familiar? 😉 ) and the lawsuit-happy company decided not to sue after all Nintendo sued for music used in a Paper Mario commercial.Class-action suit because of ill effects of Wii games.Nintendo loses controller-related lawsuit.I don’t follow game news very often, but I do recall these recent examples.
Being a big, profitable company helps this, especially in our lawsuit-happy society. You can read the original post about no EarthBound on Virtual Console here.įirst, it’s important to understand that Nintendo is bombarded with lawsuits all the time. Get yourself a sandwich or something first 😛 I made that post last week as a kind of neat trivia thing, that’s all.
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That, or they don’t understand the full story, so I’m going to try to clarify some things as best as I can here.Ī lot of people are seeing this page that compares a few EarthBound songs to real-life stuff, but that page wasn’t meant to show off legal issues or anything.
February 17th, 2009 | Audio Stuff, EarthBound, Rumors, Uncommon KnowledgeĪ lot of people seem to be confused about the recent no EarthBound on Virtual Console thing.
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