About half a lifetime ago when I was taking Technology at school, I came up with the idea of taking a derelict Quickshot 2 joystick and swapping the defunct bubble switches with mercury switches. In those days analogue joysticks were practically unheard of (and rarely supported by the available games anyway), and micro-switches were seen as the best solution on the market. My school project worked, albeit the joystick was far too sensitive to properly play Kick Off 2 (or anything else).
However as I remember holding my project in midair tilting it in all directions, it occurs to me that it could be considered as a theoretical forerunner to the Wiimote – the principal is very similar even if the technology and application is different.
So... do you think that if I could ever find my mercury-switched joystick, Nintendo would consider paying me royalties? To think that as a 16 year-old I could just have had an idea a decade ahead of its time in my head (and hands), but failed to do anything at all with it!!
However as I remember holding my project in midair tilting it in all directions, it occurs to me that it could be considered as a theoretical forerunner to the Wiimote – the principal is very similar even if the technology and application is different.
So... do you think that if I could ever find my mercury-switched joystick, Nintendo would consider paying me royalties? To think that as a 16 year-old I could just have had an idea a decade ahead of its time in my head (and hands), but failed to do anything at all with it!!
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