Remember how emulation used to be legal?

( Better grab those emulators now while you still can, kids... )

And somehow Nintendo has snuck through yet another prime example of a bullshit patent, and is now starting to wield it like they just started a text-adventure game with nothing but a hammer in their inventory, swinging it everywhere and at everything they think they can. Prepare for some ugly backlash, and not just from the small-time video-gaming community.