King applies for "rabbit" trademark
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- 1 Apr 2014 at 04:22
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- GAME_JAM season 0 episode 0 airdate 1970-01-01
Beloved gaming titan King©®™ have purchased all rights to Atari/Starpath Supercharger game Rabbit Transit (1983), previously notable for featuring substantially more mammalian reproduction than Custer’s Revenge (1982). Based on this acquisition, King©®™ are presently applying to trademark the term “rabbit” in all gaming-related endeavors, in order to sue Arkedo and Sega over Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit (2012).
However, a bright-eyed and bushy-tailed intern at King©®™ noticed that there exist other games with the word “rabbit” in their titles made after their 1983 game, and so King©®™ threatened Epic Games with litigation if they did not immediately cease selling any and all games in the Jazz Jackrabbit series.
A spokesman from Epic Games eventually explained to King©®™ that Epic have not sold any games in that series at any time in the present millennium. At this point, all threats were abandoned.
Also, Rabbit Transit probably ripped off Q*Bert or something but I mean who cares.
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Although, it’s worth noting that the threatened lawsuit has caused Epic to cancel its plans to re-release Jazz 1 and 2 on Steam and GOG next week, according to their official statement on the matter.
OOHH DAT DATE !!11ONE
(srry for the caps …)
what is the opinion of actual rabbits on this
This might actually be the riskiest newspost ever on J2O, with its Custer’s Revenge reference!
Looks like Rabbit Transit is an obvious ripoff of Frogger. Konami should sue King©®™ and win the lawsuit. Then Jazz will be in Japanese hands, treated carefully with new games, and everyone’s happy. :P