[casual_games] game copyright

[Jim Buck]

At 02:37 PM 11/9/2005, Austin Haas wrote:
>As an example of a stupid patent, have you heard that someone has already 
>patented playing a mini-game while a larger game downloads? Can anyone 
>confirm that?

         Yes, I don't have a link, but this is Namco's patent. You can play 
a short round of Galaxian while waiting for a track to load in the original 
PlayStation 1 version of Ridge Racer.


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Jim Buck
game developer
Twitchy Thumbs Entertainment, Inc.
email: jbuck at twitchythumbs.com