A massive trove of court documents related to Universal's 1983 lawsuit against Nintendo has suddenly become publicly available online. These documents include everything from mundane court records to testimony from Nintendo legends like Shigeru Miyamoto, Gunpei Yokoi, and Hiroshi Yamauchi. Perhaps most immediately interesting are some of Miyamoto's original ideas for Donkey Kong.
Video game researchers are already combing through these documents for new insights into Nintendo history, and you're free to do the same – they're all available for your perusal on the Internet Archive. These documents come courtesy of excellent YouTuber Norman Caruso, who you might know better as The Gaming Historian. Today, Caruso announced that he's retiring from his YouTube channel, but as a "parting gift" he's left us with these documents, which he scanned from the National Archives in Kansas City while researching for a video he no longer plans to finish.
