1. Super Smash Bros. used licensed Nintendo characters without initial permission. EArly in development, the game was just random polygons fighting other random polygons. The creators had to come up with something that would make people want to buy Super Smash Bros. (N64). So they took a gamble. They took four Nintendo characters (Mario, Samus, Fox and Donkey Kong) and made them playable characters, without consulting with Nintendo about it. Being a second-party Nintendo developer, this could only end in two ways: great success, or a patent-infringement lawsuit. Luckily for...