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News   PortableMonopoly's Name Change
- Posted By Michael Loewer, 04.17.2002

PortableMonopoly, the creators of the new Game Boy Advance BackLight modification shipping this May, have been forced to move to a new domain name by the greedy corporate asshats over at Milton Bradley.

I was under the impression that the word "monopoly" was an economic term referring to complete control of a product or product genre with little to no competition. The staff of PortableMonopoly chose the name because they feel Nintendo has a "monopoly" on the "portable" gaming market which led to the disappointing lack of a GBA backlight. Frankly, I feel it's rather clever.

For some reason, though, Milton Bradly feels it owns the word "monopoly" because it produces a board game by the same name and has forced PortableMonopoly to cease use of that name. Nevermind that the two terms are referring to entirely different entities and that board games and videogames are entirely different subjects. Nevermind that PortableMonopoly wasn't damaging or hurting Milton Bradley's corporate empire in any way whatsoever.

I love capitalism, but one has got to pose the question to the Milton Bradley corporation: does threatening smaller companies without reason who can't possibly defend themselves just get you guys off? Did all the executives get together that day and say, "Who can our legal minions of darkness terrorize now?"

The new name is: Triton Labs.
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Editor-in-Chief Michael Loewer, out.

Source: Penny-Arcade