Miyamoto wanted to patent “jumping”
The original Mario Bros. might have changed gaming forever but if its creator Shigeru Miyamoto had his way things could have been very different after revealing plans to patent “jumping.”
The audacious plan was revealed in a published Q&A session with Miyamoto and Nintendo President Satoru Iwata in which he revealed plans that if successful could have kept future characters firmly grounded.
Chatting about Mario Bros. Miyamoto said that after it released “there were a fair few jumping style games” outed by other companies and that he felt as if jumping games had been the brainchild of Nintendo.
“Donkey Kong involved jumping, as did Mario Bros., so you felt that Nintendo were the real originators of this kind of game,” Iwata chipped in.
“I did,” Miyamoto admitted, reminiscing of thoughts to patent jumping.
“I went as far as thinking that jumping is an original idea and that it should be patented! Anyway, I thought: ‘Right, I’m not going to let those other games top us!’”
Via [Iwata Asks: New Super Mario Bros Wii, thanks Kotaku]
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