People Who Lost Everything To Nintendo

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My favourite Nintendo fact is that they have a character named Bowser, a company president named Doug Bowser and a hacker named Gary Bowser. Stranger than fiction for sure.

ngl I've always thought in the back of my head the reason Gary Bowser was put in prison by Nintendo was SOLELY because he was named Bowser

I've seen murderers get convicted to 3 years of prison or less Seeing this man get 20 years for hacking is insane!

There's no entity more dangerous than a Japanese copyright lawyer.

One of your family member is missing? Fret not! Report them to Nintendo for using Pikachu as their phone wallpaper and they’ll be found in less than a week!

It's not an edgy joke to bring two guns and that much ammo to a tournament. They had plans.

Gary Bowser: "Today's the day I'm going to get out of prison!" Nintendo: "I'm sorry, your appeals officer is in another prison."

I went to the Worlds Championship in 2015 and was there for a full day. I had no idea about the threats of violence. Absolutely harrowing to think about. Thank goodness the proper authorities took the whole matter seriously and acted quickly. You don't take an arsenal of weapons with you to an event as a 'joke'.

How did dude get a harsher punishment for hacking Nintendo than having CP?....damn.

With that amount of ammunition, I'm not going to give them the benefit of the doubt

I started using emulators and ROM back in 1994 as a kid. First time I've ever seen a company take issue about it. My understand of using ROM was as long as you owned the game is wasn't a problem. I haven't bother with ROMs for well over a decade. Kind of sad to hear the company did that in fear that some titles from my childhood may never be seen again.

Mario in Super Mario 64: so long gay bowser! Nintendo: so long Gary bowser!

I still don't understand why console manufacturers don't sell their own emulators, and make it easy to buy digital copies of games for the consoles they no longer produce.

The most mind-blowing aspect of this is that people involved faced greater penalties and prison time than rapists and some murderers

That swap note shit is probably why the switch and all future nintendo consoles will never have a message feature or voice chat or any communication of any kind ever again.

The Ryan Hernandez story is disgraceful. He deserved having the whole law library thrown at him, not just one book.

Bro hid illegal activity in a folder called “bad stuff” 300 iq play there

Doesn’t matter how much of a joke they thought it was. Going from Ohio to Mass with two long guns and all of that ammo with how strict Massachusetts gun laws are there’s absolutely no other reason they would have brought all of that just as a “crude joke.”

The last story is the most interesting. For many years, it seemed no one had any problem with the plethora of ROM sites in the wild. They couldn't care less about the old stuff, and certainly had no interest in providing hardware to continue to play them. Then, when publishers finally got the lightbulb FROM those same websites for how they could make money out of thin air for their own previously-forgotten and discarded IPs, THEN they became litigious. It's one of those 'mysteries' that makes you wonder if some of the publishers actually WANTED the ROM sites to exist, to keep an underground of young people hooked on games...until the time it was no longer useful to them, and they had hardware and software positioned to make money from it.