Nintendo patent from '94 shows standalone hardware to allow games like Mario Maker

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- focused on a proposed hardware platform which would allow players to pause the gameplay and edit parts of the game 
- used a streamlined UI and no programming experience was needed 
- create a unique video game through an icon driven, interactive computing system 
- permits a video game to be executed, stopped, edited and resumed from the point where the editing began 
- stand-alone hardware system 
- developers would be able to specify which elements of the game the user could alter at the programming stage 
- anyone could potentially create their own unique video game with this system 
- user-generated content could be sent over a telephone line