Major League Baseball

Nintendo was the defendant in a class-action lawsuit aimed at this game brought by 9-year-old Clark Thiemann. Reading the box description (it can found on this entry), it is clear that the author (or editor) was very careful to widley avoid the game's deficiencies. Even the _concept_ of individuals is avoided (therefore individual MLB players) except for the player/buyer of the game is addressed (which turned oit to be of importance). The description does not require that teams have the correct players. Unnamed players by itself was of no legal concequince. Likewise, no timeframe is implyed by the description. The description does not promise up-to-date stats, or even up-to-date teams. Stats and teams can even be mixed from multiple times (by the language used). However, Nintendo's lawyer chose to defend the timeframe saying that it was reasonable to expect the game to have stats established before development begins, but no new stats after that point. The issue the suit ended up hanging on was the promise that the player could manage real teams. The plaintiffs' lawyer said it was unreasonable to expect 9-year-old to be able to manage real teams, as described, without seeing the names of the players. (Especially when the teams don't have the correct players and the stats sometimes differ from reality; I would think). As the lawyer put it, "the game contains insufficient data" to allow a 9-year-old player to be a manager. The judge was not convinced this claim had merit and dismissed the case. I would speculate that jersey numbers were suffcient even for a younger player. Also the phrase, "the game contains insufficient data" seems to me a weasley way to bundle the irrelevant things that were not promised by the box description (judges don't like that).