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Nintendo's trying to extend their patent foolery to mods now

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[–] fistac0rpse@fedia.io 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Not to invalidate your point, but Doom and Quake were both made by id software

[–] oyo@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 weeks ago

Ok Wolfenstein then...

Wait

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

Man, how did I not know that? I was mostly thinking of the Duke Nukem line: "I ain't afraid of no Quake" when coming up with games that clearly use the same mechanics but didn't go around suing each other. And Duke Nukem 3D was obviously based on the FPS games that came before.