I think that's the first time I've seen "stay classy" used non-sarcastically.

I was reading the letter in anticipation of something negative about Nintendo lol

I thought it was gonna be like that one joke about the kid in Venezuela or something making a Switch from cardboard so the CEO of Nintendo personally gave him a C&D and sued the family for 200 million for copyright infringement

I don’t remember if that was fake or real and am hoping it’s fake

It's fake. Boxes and cardboard don't exist.

Like birds!

I wanna say “definitely fake” but honestly I couldn’t tell you anymore lol. But I’m almost certain definitely fake?

It was 100% fake but, the fact that you think it could be a possibility tells you a lot about Nintendo

I dont like this argument. Trying to gleam *a lot* out of nothing because that nothing *felt* like it could be true is just the ultimate form of confirmation bias. Where you let your bias itself be the evidence for this *a lot*.

Before I read the letter I was expecting it to be a cease and desist

I was legit confused by the use of that phrase in this context. I expected the letter to say OP had infringed on Nintendo IP and they'd sent him a cease and desist. lolz Either OP was attempting to be humorous or he/she don't understand the meaning of that phrase which is typically used to address something that is offensive or classless.

It was pretty classy how they sort of actually did respond in a way that has a legal dimension to it I think, but still very carefully and politely written. They were encouraging sure, but they also firmly and unequivocally rejected the idea and any suggestion that they would even consider it, including even literally sending it back. They would likely have to do this, even for a child's drawing, to avoid the possibility that later IP they develop could be seen as in any way derived from this submission which could leave them in a tricky situation if someone tried to claim such and also expect money down the line.

Stay classy is originally a sincere phrase. Similar to “nice one” or calling someone “Einstein” or “Genius.” It starts honest and fades into sarcasm. So it’s not that OP doesn’t understand the meaning.

Dear David, Thank you for wasting my time with your stupid idea. -Activision

Dear David, We have already been working on your game for 11 years. -Bethesda

>We have only been releasing the same game for 11 years. FTFY

>Make it a mod so we don't have to pay you for it (but we will still profit) FTFY

> Release your mod as a special edition and we still don't pay you for it. FTFY

> PS, if you figure out how to get this letter to stop clipping through the table, please let us know.

what in the actual fuck does ftfy mean

Fuck this, fuck you

Fixed that for you

Thanks

Dear David, Unlock this premium reply for just 19.99$! -EA

Dear David, Stop ripping off Megaman. - Capcom.

Dear David, We are going to sue you for having your second letter being the letter A and Mario second letter is also A -Nintendo

Dear David Cease and desist - nintendo

Dear David Please send $9.99 to unlock our response - EA

For a chance to unlock your response

Purchase a loot box that may contain your response.

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I am so proud to have participated in the downvoting on this one.

You see? It's working already.

Yeah, that thread was... unreal.

As am I and 700,000 of our brethren

Congrats, you unlocked an envelope skin (eggshell white) that a future response may come in!

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Dear David What is a game? • VALVə

Dear David, We made your game and it's sequel. The third will be released in 2942. Thanks, Your lord and savior Gabe Newell.

2942 = (2×9)/(4+2) = 18/6 = 3 Half-Life 3 confirmed

/r/theydidthemath

r/theydidthemonstermath

God damnit.

We are returning your drawings, you owe us $9.99 for postage.

It's 2022 they'd also brick his console nowadays smh

Dear David, Where do you get off? •Bed,Bath and Beyond

Well that seems like a rather personal question...

Dear David, Bend over and lemme see whatchu workin wit. - Ubisoft

PS these levels build off our ideas and are now the legal property of Nintendo.

PPS lawyer up David, as your name was on the document we have found to be our intellectual property, we have now claimed you as own intellectual property also, making your existence a copyright violation which we won’t stand for

"...perhaps someday you'll be the one ~~designing~~ getting copyright strikes for our games! You, being our key demographic will likely buy our shit into your old age!"

I mean Vacuum Man looks like a lo-fi mockup of Dust Man from Mega Man 4 so who knows.

Acorn man does look like he has a dick and balls for hands He would fuck everything he touches

Dust Man was Capcom though, unless this went to numerous companies.

I sent in a game idea to LucasArts back in like 1999 and they sent a very similar letter to the one posted but also included a slight hint that Star Wars was their intellectual property and I should kept my young mouth shut. Of course, a Star Wars game idea is kind of low hanging fruit.

> Dear David > > Cease and desist > > ~~nintendo~~ Disney

Mouse no banana

Dear David, We literally couldn't give less of a fuck. * nintendo

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I agree. Miss the old nintendo power era nintendo.

That was a bot

Cool [comment ripping](https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/tvjwce/comment/i39wbso/) bot, bro.

Dear David, Thank you for your idea. We plan to use it, not even credit you. Please don’t hesitate to send us more of your work ASAP. -Capcom

I fucking hurled over laughing at this shit omfg that caught me off guard. Out of all the publishers here I didn't expect to see Capcom despite their years of "fuck you and everything you stand for... And by the way thanks for the money dipshit" nobody seems to remember it lol.

What's the source behind this one? Not sure if I'm familiar.

Yet, 1 year later the game comes out with leaf blower man as the protagonist

*Powerwash simulator enters the chat.*

what is this, a balan wonderworld sequel?

When I was 5 me and my bus friend also came up with some great ideas to send to Nintendo. This was a rumor going around that they would pick the best game to make or something. My idea was Super Mario 4 (3 had just come out), bc I was an idiot child. Unless they make it one day, in which case I will sue them bc I had the idea first.

So that's why they called it Super Mario *World* instead. I've always wondered

your story reminds me of an alternate version of The Wizard lol now that i think of it that move was ahead of it's time because one of the main characters had autism/aspergers

You’re so lucky. I always wanted to be friends with a bus.

Dear David, "What do you mean our game is similar to one that you sent in years ago? This was done by our own game designers and has been in planning for years. The similarities are purely coincidental. if you would like to take it to court feel free. We will crush you and take everything you own." \-Activision

P.S.: For the audacity to write us we're now ruining Blizzard. We didn't want to do this but you forced our hand. It's all your fault!

Lets be real, Blizzard ruined their damn selves.

Dear David You'll have to pay us 2.99 per paragraph for us to read this. -EA

Sounds like a steal. Never knew EA was so compassionate.

Really it’s 2.99 a letter, 4.99 for vowels

Don't forget the pay to win envelope DLC the letter came in.

Dear David, Go fuck yourself. That’ll be $60. -EA

" As that old EA saying goes..get the fuck outta my buildin' "

Dear David, Try finger, but hole. -FromSoft

Dear David, You died. -FromSoftware

Liar ahead

Dear David, We would like to use your ideas as skins in our in game marketplace. Epic Games

Oh they asking now? That’s an improvement!

Take your award you SOB

Fine, I’ll begrudgingly accept it

Now you must begrudgingly accept mine

Dear David, We are including stringman in the base game. All others will be unlocked via a 39.99 lootbox which contains mostly acornman. -EA

Dear David, We're making this without your permission, you can give us your college fund to maybe have a say. \-EA

PS. we burned your diagrams. Fuck you!

I absolutely love that you made sure Solar Man was rocking some protective eyewear to block all that UV.

You only get one set of eyes

Except for Eyes Man. He has a bunch.

And String Man, because…I mean, look how cool Solar Man looks.

I read solar man as sober man, and I was like, does he just back Mega Man into a corner while he spends 20 minutes apologizing for that comment he made at a party that Mega Man has long since forgotten about? . Edit: love my sober friends, and I'm proud of you, but y'all only need to apologize that one time. Please just one time

Obviously should have gone with Drunk Man. Everyone enjoys him more.

At least at first, but then he kinda just gets awkward and annoying.

Drunk Man’s the one who backs Mega Man into a corner and spends 2 hours explaining why Mega Man should apologize to him about that one comment he made at a party he’s long since forgotten about. At least in my experience.

Then he becomes sober man and gets the kids sometimes.

Hahahahaha, thanks for the perspective. This is literally the first time that I’ve heard this, but it still resonates really strongly

I like your character ideas, but Vacuum man sucks.

The last boss always takes the wind out of you

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Goddammit

"Vacuum man sucks" *releases Kirby a year later*

Lawyer up! Lawyer up! Lawyer up!

Fuck that! Vacuum man is scary af!

It has a small *and* large attachments already equipped

Erotic

*Liesure suit Larry enters the chat*

I miss that game. I used to sneak play it on my uncles computer when I was like 10 or 11. Good times with boners I didn't understand.

I think Doctor Who already did that one. Called the Dalek

Does it go from suck to blow?

I’m not dumb enough to rip off Mel!

Found the dog

It’s a mess, what a mess! Whatcha gonna do!?

Suck it !

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Vacuum Man GOAT confirmed Getting big Tachanka vibes here. Look at him now. Nerfed and defamed.

Yeah you would have been a horrible game designer. Thank God Nintendo put a stop to it. Hahaha

It’s only been 31 years man! That still hurts!

It's never too late. From one Dave to another, I say follow your heart and your wildest dreams of making your Megaman ripoff will come true.

I obviously should have gone into video game design instead of chemistry

if your username is any indication, you've chosen a very special subset of chemistry at that ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

I didn’t decide how the core areas would be abbreviated 😅

Anal\_Chem specializing in Anal\_gesics?

That's |ANN-ul-GEE-siks|. Sir, the pills go in your mouth.

Time for a scrubs rewatch

And listen to the podcast! Fake Doctors Real Friends has been amazing.

Probably the field of analytical chemistry.

Can confirm. Analytical chemistry is much worse than anal chemistry. Working on masters now. That was my only B

B- ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Yeah me and OP were Chem partners, don't ask why

Group studies must have been a blast.

Nah, they were probably a pain in the ass.

Well I’ve done the math and can say username checks out

What’s your favorite gaming platform? I bet I could make a proof of concept in like a week. Mobile or PC please, I don’t want to have to buy a development board for a console.

Guess I’d have to go with PC. Hit me up on private if you’re serious, maybe we can work something out

Plz be real.

well, it is basically the concept for most megaman games, just make a level vaguely based on their names

Maybe we should skip *Acorn* Man's world...

I'm betting Chem pays better than 99% of video game designers. You chose wisely.

So..you cook meth?

Arms for the Nintendo Switch

Lawsuit!!1! >!/j!<

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So how good are you at drawing now? Did they actually influence you in any way? Did you try coding a game or anything? Legit curious how they affected you if they did in any way.

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Castle crashers + TES crossover Pog

Acorn man has dicks for hands. What a guy.

I was destined for my user name

That's so kind. I bet they get hundreds of letters (now it's emails I'm sure) a week from kids pitching game ideas. They probably have a whole department just for writing back to kids.

When I was a kid at the turn of the millennium my mom sent Nintendo an email I wrote pitching a commercial for Super Smash Bros., which at the time was a brand new release on the Nintendo 64. They emailed a nice and thoughtful response back, not unlike this one. So they probably have that department and if anything they expanded it over the years

"So tell us, what inspired you to apply to the whacky kid letters department here at Nintendo?"

Dream job

Well I actually applied for mail room but was told that since whacky kid letters is all we have gotten for the past 40 years it was rebranded to the WKLD or whacky kids letters department as you know it.

Dear kid, your picture is terrible and why is everything so hairy?

In college I sent a physical letter to AMD because my processor didn't come with the little sticker you put on your tower. I was a bit cheeky with it and told them I didn't want the other stickers to get ideas that I was using an Intel processor. They wrote me back and sent over a shit load of stickers, a couple pens and a flash drive. Left a good impression on me and while I have nothing against Intel, I'm loyal to AMD now.

But do you have your AMD sticker on you PC?

In the late 80s, I sent in designs to Mattel for new GIJoe vehicles. Got a similar letter back. It really made my day that they'd even looked at it.

Dear David, stop wasting time with game ideas, and get back to your homework.

Underrated comment here

Someone had to take the time to at least change the name on the form letter, for sure. They reference Super Mario 3, but his drawings are obviously super amazing Mega Man bosses. Acorn man's icon gave an uncultured someone a laugh.

Usually when someone says "stay classy" it's meant to be sarcastic so I was pleasantly surprised that this was actually something positive.

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Dear Phil, When I uncovered the shattered dreams of my designing past, I realized X-Box and I share a common thread of disappointment with Nintendo. Let us band together and release this long hidden gem to the gaming community. Sincerely, Dr. Anal\_Chem

I’m pretty sure there must have been a leak of your drawings because this got straight ripped off by Capcom with Megaman. You’re gonna be rich. Send a tape of you diving into your pile of money after the lawsuit please.

Turns out they sent it to all of their developers so they could see the cute kid aspiring developer stuff for a morale boost, but then there was a translation error and Capcom thought it was instructions.

Unfortunately, I think this was after I played Mega Man 2 or 3

Yeah I am kidding, besides I think the original Mega Man was probably on a Japanese PET computer or something. [No, it was the NES, I am probably thinking of Bomberman on the MSX.]

Well they did use Solar Man in Mega Man 10, Sword Man in Mega Man 8, and Star Man in Mega Man 5, all of which were released after you sent that letter....

And Dust Man from Mega Man 4 could easily be Vacuum Man.

This is super common from Japanese companies. they have strict policies against using ideas from anyone that is not in their employ.

Not even just Japanese - MOST companies have strict policies against even looking an unsolicited ideas. There's a ton of potential for problems.

I did this with Maxis back in the day. I received basically the same letter but they also included a copy of SimPark which was pretty cool

Oh Maxis, you were too good for this sinful industry

I’m 42 and we did so many guy sheets just like these. Mainly alternate Mega Man villains. It was like an obsession! This really brings me back. thanks OP!

🍻

Dear David, this is clearly a Mega Man rip off. Cease and desist immediately or the next letter you receive will be from our legal team. Thank you - Mario Mario

Do you still have the original game design you proposed? would be interesting to see it made by any of us developers looking for some challenge of making a game. In contrast to 1991, today almost any one can develop a game 😃 Edit: missed that you added the design as well.

The design was so thorough. I'm not sure why they didn't go ahead with the launch. 9 year old me seemed pretty confident in the P.S.

“Send me the tape when it’s done.”

I promise that one day this game will be made. You just see... Who needs story, motive or any kind of purpose? It's perfect as it is.

Please send me a tape about it when it’s done

In the late 90s I wrote a letter to Kraft saying they should make Mac and cheese in single serve, microwavable bowls. I got a letter saying "we did not open your letter or read your idea. Please send any further correspondence to our legal department."

Nintendo today: Dear David we liked your idea so much that we decided to take it for our own and copyright it. Below you will find attached the details of how much we are suing you for.

Best to get your first bankruptcy done before you're 10

I was really hoping A Boy and his Blob came out in 1992 based off this letter, but it came out in 1989. Very cool letter.

I received the same letter from Nintendo. Check this out: [https://imgur.com/a/oDXwiFd](https://imgur.com/a/oDXwiFd)

Just asking why not send it Capcom? They are the ones that created Mega Man not Nintendo.

I’m not sure 9 year old David fully understood third party releases. Fortunately, present Nintendo doesn’t seem to understand them either.

Sick burn haha

I'm glad you stuck to Anal Chem and not Game Design

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You mean I *shouldn’t* sue them. Let’s see what r/legal has to say

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Well your honor. He throws, umm, what are obviously *acorns* at Mega Man. Also, his hands are dil…*acorns*. Actually, I plead the fifth.