Patentmania: The Golden Age of Electronic Games

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

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Television Target Game and Method

Filed August 8th, 1977

Here’s an early Nintendo patent for a prosaic shooting game from the BDK (Before Donkey Kong) era. I can’t look at this drawing without thinking of real pistols shooting real bullets into TV screens.

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