{"id":2409,"date":"2017-02-24T15:14:26","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T22:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/nintendo-is-suing-a-mario-kart-themed-go-karting-service-in-tokyo\/"},"modified":"2017-02-24T15:14:26","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T22:14:26","slug":"nintendo-is-suing-a-mario-kart-themed-go-karting-service-in-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/nintendo-is-suing-a-mario-kart-themed-go-karting-service-in-tokyo\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo is suing a Mario Kart-themed go-karting service in Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nintendo filed a lawsuit<\/a> today claiming that a Tokyo-based go-karting service is ripping its ideas directly from Mario Kart<\/em>. The service, <\/a> called MariCar, shop<\/a> is known for its go-kart tours around the city, during which riders don costumes of different Nintendo characters, like Mario, Luigi, and Yoshi. Nintendo alleges the company never obtained permission to use these costumes and that its entire business is based off Nintendo\u2019s product. MariCar represents a play off Mario Kart<\/em>, Nintendo says, and is an infringement on its copyright.<\/p>\n

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People seem to really love MariCar, at least according to TripAdvisor<\/a>. So sorry, y\u2019all. That said,…<\/p>\n

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Nintendo filed a lawsuit today claiming that a Tokyo-based go-karting service is ripping its ideas directly from Mario Kart. The service, called MariCar, shop is known for its go-kart tours around the city, during which riders don costumes of different Nintendo characters, like Mario, Luigi, and Yoshi. Nintendo alleges the company never obtained permission to… Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2410,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[174,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-media","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t