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Mr. A
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0.  Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2003 7:23 am Post subject: The First Video Game Patent - Like DDR! |
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I was reading through a book about patents when I came to a section about arcade/video games.
You guys won't believe this. One of the very first patents involved a game that used a foot-control pad similar to DDR! I'm not making this up, this was back in the late 60s!
30+ years later... |
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Mysterio
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| 1. Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2003 7:26 am Post subject: |
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Hmm, interesting...I wonder if Konami knew this...
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radicalfaith360
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| 2. Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2003 7:58 am Post subject: |
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Hey, can you get some pictures?! I'd like to take a look at it!  |
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Mr. A
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| 3. Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2003 8:51 am Post subject: |
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| If I can find that book I'll gladly post the name of the book and scan the page of it. I might try some web searching as well. |
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Combo_777
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| 4. Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2003 11:25 am Post subject: |
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I don't think it was made in the 60's, but I saw this pad for the NES in EB this one time. It was for world class track meet.
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QuestionMark
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| 5. Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2003 11:59 am Post subject: i think.... |
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| i think i found the actual patent DDR.... i put the patent on a floppy disk somewhere.... It showed the guys who came up with it and showed konami had rights to the game.... I found it when i was finding the history of ddr and it came to 7 1/2 pages of articles on ddr's history.... |
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J.R.
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| 6. Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2003 12:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Combo_777 wrote: | | I don't think it was made in the 60's, but I saw this pad for the NES in EB this one time. It was for world class track meet. |
Yeah but that game was made by konami I had it too.
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