{"id":35658,"date":"2018-07-26T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/nintendo_applies_for_hogans_alley_trademark_in_japan_could_this_nes_classic_make_a_comeback"},"modified":"2018-07-26T16:15:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T16:15:00","slug":"nintendo-applies-for-hogans-alley-trademark-in-japan-could-this-nes-classic-make-a-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/26\/nintendo-applies-for-hogans-alley-trademark-in-japan-could-this-nes-classic-make-a-comeback\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Applies For Hogan&#8217;s Alley Trademark In Japan, Could This NES Classic Make A Comeback?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/nintendo_applies_for_hogans_alley_trademark_in_japan_could_this_nes_classic_make_a_comeback\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/nintendo_applies_for_hogans_alley_trademark_in_japan_could_this_nes_classic_make_a_comeback\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"hogan.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/nintendo_applies_for_hogans_alley_trademark_in_japan_could_this_nes_classic_make_a_comeback\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/nintendo_applies_for_hogans_alley_trademark_in_japan_could_this_nes_classic_make_a_comeback\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"hogan.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Nintendo has applied for a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/hogans_alley\"><strong>Hogan&#8217;s Alley<\/strong><\/a> trademark in Japan, potentially spelling a comeback for the Nintendo Switch.<\/p>\n<p>For those not in the know, Hogan&#8217;s Alley is a NES game that was initially\u00a0released back in 1984.\u00a0It was one of the first to use a\u00a0light gun\u00a0as an input device, presenting players with cardboard cut-outs of gangsters and innocent civilians. Players had to successfully shoot the bad guys, saving the innocents in the process.<\/p>\n<p>The game has also seen cameos in various <strong>WarioWare<\/strong> titles and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wiiu\/super_smash_bros_for_wii_u\"><strong>Super Smash\u00a0Bros. for Wii U<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/super_smash_bros_for_nintendo_3ds\"><strong>3DS<\/strong><\/a>, with Duck Hunt Duo&#8217;s final smash\u00a0causing opponents to get caught in the middle of a shootout between the enemies from\u00a0Hogan&#8217;s Alley\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/wild_gunman\"><strong>Wild Gunman<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the folks over at Japanese Nintendo, the trademark relates to &#8220;purposes including and related to \u2018program for home video game machine\u2019&#8221;. Of course, with the game already being re-released on Wii U a few years back, and with the NES Classic now a thing of the past (just about), this could mean that something linked to the game is brewing for the Switch. Part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/nintendo_switch_online_finally_revealed_cloud_saves_nes_games_and_pricing_confirmed\">Nintendo Switch Online<\/a> service, perhaps?<\/p>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/nintendo_applies_for_hogans_alley_trademark_in_japan_could_this_nes_classic_make_a_comeback\/attachment\/1\/original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/nintendo_applies_for_hogans_alley_trademark_in_japan_could_this_nes_classic_make_a_comeback\/attachment\/1\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Trademark - Hogan's Alley\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Trademark &#8211; Hogan&#8217;s Alley<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>As always, though, it&#8217;s best to keep any excitement over trademark applications in check in case nothing ever comes of it. We&#8217;ll have to wait and see if any official news regarding the game is released over the coming months.<\/p>\n<p><em>Do you have any memories of Hogan&#8217;s Alley? Would you like to see the game become available on\u00a0Switch in some form? Let us know with a comment below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo has applied for a new Hogan&#8217;s Alley trademark in Japan, potentially spelling a comeback for the Nintendo Switch. For those not in the know, Hogan&#8217;s Alley is a NES game that was initially\u00a0released back in 1984.\u00a0It was one of the first to use a\u00a0light gun\u00a0as an input device, presenting players with cardboard cut-outs of [&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-35658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35658","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=35658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}