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Post by minimario on Dec 11, 2005 13:31:05 GMT -5
Two screens of the game Asterix & Obelix XXL 2: Mission Las Vegum for PS2 and PC:   |
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Post by Jessica Ingmann on Dec 11, 2005 17:02:15 GMT -5
Firstly, I can't believe they're still making Asterix and Obelix games.
Secondly, you are dead-on there, minimario. There is in no way, shape, or form, any doubt that those were through-and-through intentional allusions. Someone should probably e-mail The Mushroom Kingdom with this, too, now that I think about it.
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Post by Fryguy64 on Dec 11, 2005 17:14:34 GMT -5
I read about this in Nintendo Official Magazine UK a while ago, but they didn't mention what game it was.
Edge magazine also pointed towards another generic-looking PS2 game that has a secret room modelled after the SMB warp zone rooms, with blocks and pipes.
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Post by Dances in Undergarments on Dec 11, 2005 21:14:19 GMT -5
Awesome.
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Post by Sqrt2 on Dec 12, 2005 4:06:57 GMT -5
Personally I'd sue whoever developed the game but I guess that isn't nintendo's style. Although I have to admit that the design on the pipe looks pretty funky.
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Post by Dances in Undergarments on Dec 12, 2005 6:09:58 GMT -5
Suing ISN'T Nintendo's style?
Oh dear God I've entered Bizzaro World!
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Post by Fryguy64 on Dec 12, 2005 7:52:03 GMT -5
Heh, suing IS Nintendo's style, but you can't really get away with suing a parody. No court in the civilised world would allow it.
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Post by Dances in Undergarments on Dec 12, 2005 18:52:19 GMT -5
Whoops, that was meant to say isn't... which it always did, of course. *cough*
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Post by Jessica Ingmann on Dec 12, 2005 19:12:34 GMT -5
That's a little more than a parody in my eyes... We're right on the border between "cameo" and "rip-off" there, but I'm sure "Maricus"(that's what I'm calling him) only shows up like...once. Or maybe as a goofy enemy in the Aquaduct area. As for the pipes, Nintendo can't really copyright that, even if the used allusion is green in color and looks just like semi-modern pipework. Rather, can't copyright using pipes as a method of getting around from one place to another.
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Post by kirbychu on Dec 13, 2005 8:57:21 GMT -5
It wasn't until I looked a second time that I realised that guy in the first screenshot has FLUDD strapped to his back... isn't that leaning more towards a suable parody?
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Post by Fryguy64 on Dec 13, 2005 9:22:48 GMT -5
No, a parody is a parody.
If the publishers were trying to rip the character off as their own creation then it's copyright infringement and a suable offense...
But they're not. It's an intentional parody of Mario, no more sue-worthy than Earthworm Jim's gun and Sonic's shoes being in the trashcan in Donkey Kong Country 2.
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Post by Jessica Ingmann on Dec 14, 2005 2:09:12 GMT -5
Ah hah... A very valid point. So what you're saying is...as long as they're not saying "this is our original character" or "we made this entirely by ourselves," it's all good. However, if it were Mario polygon-for-polygon, they'd have to put "Mario © Nintendo" somewhere, or something.(Kind of like The Terminator, Batman(Man-Bat?), and Spider-Man in Shinobi II: Return of the Ninja Master on the Sega Genesis. Yes, I know a little off-topic, but still.)
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Post by Fryguy64 on Dec 14, 2005 4:05:48 GMT -5
Exactly... however even if they did that they would need to get express permission from Nintendo to use their copyrights. It's not good enough just sticking the copyright symbol in... however that is how many websites operate.
But a parody is a parody. What kind of world would we be living in if the Hot Shots movie producers had been sued by the Top Gun movie producers. Not a world I'd like to live in, that's for sure!
"Wendy I can fly!!"
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