Corporations aren’t your friends.

Not even Valve.

Nintendo have ALWAYS been supervillains (at least, since they got into video games).

Like, everyone loves the story about how Nintendo “saved video games” after The Crash by tricking stores into carrying Robby the Robot. And… like most stories that came out of 90s/00s games media, it ignores the existence of PC gaming. But whatever. We got REALLY lucky that people liked the NES because if they didn’t? NOBODY would ever have been able to try that again.

Aside from that? Nintendo is just Disney. They are ridiculously protective of their IP and everyone insists on dragging their kids in because they remember loving it growing up. And they are INCREDIBLY protective of their back catalog (less so in the Switch era where third parties were an active detriment for performance reasons) a la The Disney Vault.

And… all the Nintendo Adults have made it clear over the decades that “Corporations aren’t your friends. Except for the one with Mario. #StandUpForNintendo”

To be clear: I am one of the five people who bought every single Battlecruiser game. That shit was GOOD. That doesn’t mean Derek Smart wasn’t always an evil mother fucker (back in the day, he joined an Unreal message board JUST to curse me out and call me like seven slurs. And I was actually defending his games in that thread).

Enjoy what you enjoy. Just don’t associate “make good game” with virtue.

I guess now is better than later, but plenty of people already knew that litigious and rich companies are never good.

I’m less than a minute in and I’d hardly call Nintendo petty for wanting to stop someone naming their shop “Super Mario” and with a picture of Mario as the logo… It couldn’t look any more Nintendo-esque.

I’ll stop here thanks.