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Well I stumbled over an interesting story, that naturally ended up in an article to write.

This one's pretty odd, but the tl;dr version is that Pixar sued DMA Design. They'd created a game on the SNES which featured a unicycle. That's it. That's the extent of the copyright infringement Pixar claimed.

Back in 1987 Pixar had made a CG short which featured a unicycle, and so all those years later...they got weirdly litigious.

If you're curious, I found this a super interesting story to cover!

https://gardinerbryant.com/the-wheel-that-went-to-court/

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[–] catalyst@lemmy.world 1 points 24 minutes ago

Wow, that’s pretty crazy. I at least had no idea this happened. I did not own the game personally but I know we rented it a few times and it was surprisingly fun.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 10 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Uniracers was an awesome racing game. I also loved how the manual had a blank page for notes, but it wasn't blank, it was filled with a rant about how nobody uses the notes section of a manual 🤣

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 hours ago

I had a friend who owned this game. We used to play it all the time. Good memories.

[–] itsathursday@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

I had no idea. I remember hiring it from blockbuster and thinking how 3d the graphics were. I don’t think I ever saw it on the shelves in a store though but I did spend more time in blockbuster than the stores.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 15 points 16 hours ago

also if you're curious, uniracers/unirally is worth playing. at least for a while. the controls are weird, but also weirdly intuitive.

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 9 points 15 hours ago

I had this game and was fortunate enough to play with a friend the tracks for highscores. Meaning we beat the scores and times and swapped games to play. Later on the internet, I was disappointed that people didn't like this game, because it's unusual. It's high speed and people say that they don't know what is coming and randomly crash. But the track parts coloring schemes shows you what will come next.

It's a simple game by design. Hold left or right to move, jump and in the air, do stunts. If you land on the wheel after stunts, then you get a speed boost (or bonus points in the stunt tracks). Even the angle on landing has influence how you keep momentum. I highly recommend to play this game with a friend. It has a 2 player mode with split screen, but unfortunately no multiplayer interaction, you don't even collide.

[–] capuccino@lemmy.world 12 points 16 hours ago

Ohhh I love this one. Fun fact: every sprite in this game was made by hand.