Gaming related patents

[sienar]

A lot of neat stuff can be found by trawling through patent archives

Various Nintendo/Sony playstation patents


Early controller as seen with a dev kit


Slightly later PSX controllers


Dualshock/dual analog


PS3 boomerang



Early PS4 controller


Funny xbox controller, circa 2008

 

[sienar]

The first PSP


Nintendo filled a large number of design patents for the gamecube controller. Here are some of the strangest

 

[EvanSki]

Nice to see the patent for the prototype nintendo play station, I've been interested in those ever since I saw Ben heck fix one

 

[Arcadia]

Nice to see the patent for the prototype nintendo play station, I've been interested in those ever since I saw Ben heck fix one

I've played it, one of the best moments of my life (although the games were the regular SF II and Mario Kart).

 

[Vervexx]

Always loved looking at those patent entries, a lot of great (or interesting) ideas that may or may not have come to fruition. Hell, there's even some downright crazy stuff.

Saved a few of those on my other rig for archiving, might share some of the most peculiars later (but as you mentioned, they are fairly available online).

For the moment, I only have the DSi patent drawing downloaded on this computer, still pretty nice :



Source for more technical goodies about the DSi : https://patents.google.com/patent/EP2112594A2/fr?assignee=nintendo&oq=nintendo&page=1

 

[Punch]

Can't forget the classic "Video game/videographics program editing apparatus with program halt and data transfer features" patent from one Intelligent Systems Co. Ltd. in these threads: https://patents.google.com/patent/US6115036?oq=inassignee:"Nintendo+Co+Ltd"