Pro@programming.dev to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 13 hours agoLast week, Nintendo and The Pokémon Company received a U.S. patent on summoning a character and letting it fight anothergamesfray.comexternal-linkmessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up1192arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up1191arrow-down1external-linkLast week, Nintendo and The Pokémon Company received a U.S. patent on summoning a character and letting it fight anothergamesfray.comPro@programming.dev to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 13 hours agomessage-square31fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarezabadoh@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 hours agoGood thinking! Microprose MTG came out in 1997, one year after Pokemon in 1996, but that was in Japan as Pokemon Red/Green. Pokemon Red/Blue was released in the US in 1998. So in the US technically, Microprose published first. I have no idea who owns Microprose’s IP these days.
Good thinking!
Microprose MTG came out in 1997, one year after Pokemon in 1996, but that was in Japan as Pokemon Red/Green.
Pokemon Red/Blue was released in the US in 1998.
So in the US technically, Microprose published first.
I have no idea who owns Microprose’s IP these days.