Anytime a fan oversteps their bounds by making a game inspired by a Nintendo product, they risk their hard work being squashed by Nintendo. It happened to the Metroid 2 fan remake, the Pokemon-inspired game 'Uranium' (which was pretty damn cool) and so many more fan projects.
The freeware site, GameJolt, has reported that Nintendo sent out around 562 DMCA takedown notices to projects housed on the site that are infringing on rights of the Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, and Pokemon franchises.
"These web pages display images of Nintendo's video game characters in connection with unauthorized online games that copy the characters, music, and other features of Nintendo's video games," Nintendo's representatives wrote in the takedown notice. "The website at gamejolt.com generates revenue from advertising banners displayed on the site and advertisements played while users wait for the games to load."
With the breathing down their neck with DMCA notices, GameJolt has removed public access to the affected games. The game creators can still access the games, so there's always the hope the download links to the games appear somewhere on the magical internet.
[Via GamesIndustry]
