Patentmania: The Golden Age of Electronic Games

The first era of computerized fun was crude, clunky...and unforgettable.

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Nintendo Robot Patent

Game Robot

Filed November 4th, 1985

I’m clearly a Nintendo-history illiterate–until I found this drawing, I’d never heard of the Nintendo Entertainment System peripheral known as R.O.B., and certainly wouldn’t have guessed that he’s still around as a character in current Nintendo titles.

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