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Six patent drawings of a hand-held electronic game on a cream patent sheet

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Plate Nº 011 · First edition

Des. 318,884

Hand-held electronic game · filed 1989

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Title
Hand-held electronic game
Inventor
Shin Kojo
Assignee
Nintendo Co., Ltd.
Filed
June 26, 1989
Patented
August 6, 1991
Primary source
U.S. Design Patent 318,884, original sheets (public domain)
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Why I made this series

Before it was in your pocket, it was a drawing filed in an office. These are the actual sheets and layouts, the moment an idea became a thing with a number on it. I redrew them so you can hang the birth certificate of a machine.

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