Flappy bird CLEARLY uses super mario bros pipes and other assets. Out of all the things Nintendo sues people over, all the petty things, they somehow missed this one. Which is strange, because it’s like the one lawsuit that you see, and think “yeah…I get why Nintendo would sue.”, and it’s the ONE TIME Nintendo said “nah”.

I mean, they recently sent a cease and disist, as well as a channel strike to Retro Game Corps. Because he showed videos reviewing emulation devices. Not specifically Nintendo related. These are little handheld emulation devices, and the gameplay he showed in small clips of Nintendo games from the 90s. Nintendo felt that was potential lawsuit ready. So now he’s said he’s not going to say the name Nintendo, he’s not going to show any more footage with nintendo anything. They threaten to sue HIM but not flappy bird, which stole direct assets from their games, and sold this new game with their assets. No lawsuit there.

They sued blockbuster video for including game manuals in rentals.

They’ve sued countless people for making fan created games, which would be released for free.

They even sued a guy who spent 6 years writting, casting, shooting, and producing a full length live action Zelda movie. They released it online for about a week before it got taken down. Never to be downloaded by anyone who didn’t grab it right away.

I don’t understand.