Officially Cheating with the Game Genie,Perhaps one of the most important accessories to have with t

Officially Cheating with the Game Genie,Perhaps one of the most important accessories to have with the Nintendo Entertainment System, the Game Genie was a device allowing the user to modify the game in order to get certain cheats such as invincibility, unlimited lives, unlimited ammo, and other features.  Peashooter knows the Game Genie well, as he would have never beaten Super Mario Bros 3 without the magic of the of the cheat device.Use of the Game Genie was simple; the user simply placed the device on the end of the NES cartridge, then inserted the cartridge into the console.  The Game Genie would temporarily negate the code of the game, replacing it with a new code that modified the game. A booklet of cheat codes relevant for each game came with the device.  Before the game started a special screen appeared where the player typed in the desired codes.  The game would then start with the cheats having taken effect.  When new games were manufactured a new booklet of cheat codes were published, for sale by mail order catalog.Originally the Game Genie was introduced in 1990, produced and sold by a UK/Canadian company called Camerica.  Later they were produced by Lewis Galoob Toys, Inc, then one of the largest toy companies in the United States.  Every Nintendo kid loved the new Game Genie, of course who doesn’t love to cheat? Unfortunately there was one group of people who didn’t like the Game Genie, the employees and managers of Nintendo.  Nintendo claimed that the Game Genie created derivative works that violated its copyrights.  In July of 1990 a court granted Nintendo an injunction against Galoob, preventing the company from selling any more Game Genies.  Galoob then filed a complaint against Nintendo, claiming that he injunction violated its Constitutional rights.  The legal battle went all the way to Federal Court in 1991 with the case Galoob vs. Nintendo.  Judge Fern M. Smith ruled that Galoob did not infringe upon Nintendo’s copyrights, citing that the Game Genie’s modifications were protected under the fair use doctrine.Five million Game Genie devices were for the NES were sold world wide.  Game Genies were also produced for the Super Nintendo, Nintendo Gameboy, Sega Genesis, and Sega Game Gear.  A new and improved model was planned for 1993, called the Game Genie 2, but development never proceeded past the design stages. -- source link

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