The GOG library has been building since 2008, when Vista was the current windows version.
Some titles that worked at some point over the last 16 years may have some developed issues on modern hardware, drivers, or operating systems.
This program is at least confirming it works on windows 10/11 and common 2024 hardware
Its out? Its out!!
Now I know what I'm doing tonight.
They have a list of titles in the program here:
https://www.gog.com/en/gog-preservation-program
Change logs are on each title's page.
This sounds like a jump the shark moment
Middle of the pack
I'm not sure "in a 3D space" qualifies as an "inventive step" these days.
It definitely feels like something a person with ordinary skill in the art to which the invention pertains could easily have made on the basis of an invention or inventions that are already known.
Franchises and ensemble casts really skew those results. So in the end it basically just comes down to "who was part of one or more large franchises" (primarily marvel), which to me is not that interesting.
True.
If memory serves the harry potter kids were in the top 5 based on those films alone. Then Depp took the crown when the pirates of the caribbean sequels did well. Now its just ranking the MCU group by who has stuck around the longest.
Co-optimous has the best db of co-op features.
For couch co-op they list:
These numbers place the PS4 couch co-op library as larger than all the preceding PS generations combined. (At the moment you could group PS5 in with them too but that won't be true for long.)
Edit: thinking about this a bit more the interesting pattern is that each of PS2, PS3, and PS4 more than doubled their preceding generation's figure. We don't know how long the PS5 generation will stick around but we are probably half way though and its unlikely it reaches 2400 co-op titles.
Admittedly my understanding of patents is pretty rudimentary but I thought you had to apply before releasing the idea into the world.
If that was right the general concept of a container that you throw at a creature to capture it would be considered unpatentable after Pocket Monsters Red and Green released in February 1997. Of course they could trademark the specific markings of the pokeball but the general mechanic would be fair game.
It had different names depending on publisher/region:
Little Big Adventure [...] was published in Europe by Electronic Arts, and by Activision in North America, Asia and Oceania under the name Relentless: Twinsen's Adventure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Big_Adventure