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Nintendo Patents Football Controller

Sol InvictusSol Invictus Registered User regular
edited August 2009 in Games and Technology
I was browsing the interturbes today when I ran across this little tidbit on Nintendo's patent of a football controller for the Wii. It looks terribly unworkable, and as the article describes, it looks like it's ideal for ballet practice. I don't know how they intend to make something like this even function, but it certainly makes for a hilarious patent image.

http://www.gearlog.com/2009/08/nintendo_patents_football_cont.php

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    Mr.SunshineMr.Sunshine Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    IT BEGINS!

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    AnalrapistAnalrapist Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    "GET YOUR OWN SAMMICH!"

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    maximumzeromaximumzero I...wait, what? New Orleans, LARegistered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Super Mario Football incoming.

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    ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    I don't believe it

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    LunkerLunker Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    HA HA HA

    EDIT: I see this has already been suitably taken care of in the Sporky thread. Good work, lads.

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    BartholamueBartholamue Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    This doesn't look any less ridiculous than the number of plastic do nothing peripherals that other companies made. I'm used to it.

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    AnalrapistAnalrapist Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Bum patting is now encouraged, thus making family day all the more weird.

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    WillybubbaWillybubba Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Wow. Do they WANT people to throw their Wiimotes through the TV?

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    joshofalltradesjoshofalltrades Class Traitor Smoke-filled roomRegistered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Saw the thread title and immediately filed it under Sarcasm with the subheading, "This will end well!"

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    WitchsightWitchsight Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Well its about time.

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    jothkijothki Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    It looks like just another shell that doesn't do anything. The only difference is that this one is slightly squishy. I can't see why they bothered to patent it.

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    TicaldfjamTicaldfjam Snoqualmie, WARegistered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Holy Shit. Madden on the Wii is about to get a helluva lot more interesting.

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    Eat it You Nasty Pig.Eat it You Nasty Pig. tell homeland security 'we are the bomb'Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    it would work great with the power pad

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    THEPAIN73THEPAIN73 Shiny. Real shiny.Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    So many more broken TVs.

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    AnalrapistAnalrapist Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Everyone shut up and do some photoshopping.
    I'd do it, but i'm at work.

    I need lulz.

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    CantidoCantido Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    The innocent shall suffer. Big time.

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    Andrew_JayAndrew_Jay Registered User regular
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    joshofalltradesjoshofalltrades Class Traitor Smoke-filled roomRegistered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Andrew_Jay wrote: »
    What the hell is 100 pointing to? Nothing?

    They're trying to slip a patent on oxygen by in a seemingly innocuous patent on a football controller! Bastards!

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    NickTheNewbieNickTheNewbie Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Analrapist wrote: »
    Everyone shut up and do some photoshopping.
    I'd do it, but i'm at work.

    I need lulz.

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    GyralGyral Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Guy in the TV looks like something from Jim Henson. Jim Henson's Muppets Football for Wii confirmed?

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