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Game & Watch Fire Lives! (Through Joy-Con Mouse Patent)

Photo of Game & Watch: Fire (Wide Screen version) Source: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/_()

Fans of Game & Watch: Fire may find this new patent application familiar:

By moving two Joy-Cons in mouse mode, the player can position a trampoline to bounce an NPC to safety (imgs 1-2 below). When either L or R button is pressed, moving the mouse-cons will stretch the trampoline to fit multiple falling NPCs (imgs 3-4).

Drawing from patent EP4748460: FIG. 12 shows a non-limiting example of a game screen
Drawing from patent EP 4748460: FIG. 13 shows a non-limiting example of a game screen
Drawing from patent EP4748460: FIG. 17 shows a non-limiting example of a game screen
Drawing from patent EP 4748460: FIG. 18 shows a non-limiting example of a game screen

I swear, if Welcome Tour gets a DLC before Mario Kart World, some heads are going to explode. (Jk, this is likely R&D work, not an actual product.)

[Originally posted on 2026-05-29 Pacific Time]