{"id":21291,"date":"2018-05-22T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T16:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/nintendo_applies_for_new_n64_trademark_-_is_another_classic_edition_on_the_way"},"modified":"2018-05-22T16:10:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T16:10:00","slug":"nintendo-applies-for-new-n64-trademark-is-another-classic-edition-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/05\/22\/nintendo-applies-for-new-n64-trademark-is-another-classic-edition-on-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Applies For New N64 Trademark &#8211; Is Another Classic Edition On The Way?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/nintendo_applies_for_new_n64_trademark_-_is_another_classic_edition_on_the_way\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/nintendo_applies_for_new_n64_trademark_-_is_another_classic_edition_on_the_way\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Joy!\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/nintendo_applies_for_new_n64_trademark_-_is_another_classic_edition_on_the_way\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/nintendo_applies_for_new_n64_trademark_-_is_another_classic_edition_on_the_way\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Joy!\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>With the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2016\/11\/hardware_review_nes_classic_mini_nintendo_entertainment_system\">NES<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/09\/hardware_review_the_snes_classic_mini_is_the_perfect_link_to_the_past\">SNES<\/a> Classic Editions proving to be commercially successful, it&#8217;s almost inevitable that Nintendo will produce another &#8216;recooked&#8217; version of one of its vintage platforms. Given that Nintendo Co., Ltd. has just applied for an\u00a0N64\u00a0trademark in Japan, one might assume that the 64-bit console &#8211; home to iconic games such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/super_mario_64\"><strong>Super Mario 64<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/goldeneye_007\"><strong>GoldenEye 007<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/banjo_kazooie\"><strong>Banjo-Kazooie<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; is next.<\/p>\n<p>The trademark covers elements such as &#8220;video game program, controller for game machine, joystick for video game machine, TV game machine&#8221; and more. If you can read Japanese, the full application is below.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/nintendo_applies_for_new_n64_trademark_-_is_another_classic_edition_on_the_way\/attachment\/1\/original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/nintendo_applies_for_new_n64_trademark_-_is_another_classic_edition_on_the_way\/attachment\/1\/original.jpg\" alt=\"tumblr_inline_p94ykp0fL21rmjx4g_500.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Before we get <em>too<\/em> excited, it&#8217;s worth noting that Nintendo applied for a trademark relating to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/10\/rumours_swirl_around_a_game_boy_classic_trademark_but_dont_get_too_excited\">Game Boy<\/a> last year, sparking rumours that the popular handheld would be next &#8211; but we&#8217;ve yet to see a Game Boy Classic Edition appear.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, this isn&#8217;t even the first time that the N64 trademark has been renewed &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/07\/trademark_application_has_fans_dreaming_of_the_nintendo_64_classic_mini\">a similar filing took place in Europe last year<\/a>. Do you think we&#8217;ll see it soon, or are these trademarks just a case of Nintendo protecting its history? Let us know with a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the NES and SNES Classic Editions proving to be commercially successful, it&#8217;s almost inevitable that Nintendo will produce another &#8216;recooked&#8217; version of one of its vintage platforms. Given that Nintendo Co., Ltd. has just applied for an\u00a0N64\u00a0trademark in Japan, one might assume that the 64-bit console &#8211; home to iconic games such as Super [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}