A successful Kickstarter campaign for a NES game artbook has been shut down by Nintendo lawyers. The bad - if not exactly surprising - news dropped last night, when the Bitmap Books' NES Visual Compendium Kickstarter was just 24 hours from the end of its funding period. Attempting to access the Kickstarter now displays the following message: "NES/Famicom: a visual compendium is the subject of an intellectual property dispute and is currently unavailable. If you are interested in this project, please check back later. Thanks for your patience." Nintendo has blocked the project on the basis that the book infringes copyright. NES games such as Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, Excitebike, Duck Hunt, Metroid and Donkey Kong are among those specifically named. "This Kickstarter project makes unauthorised use of Nintendo's copyrights as noted above," a legal notice submitted by Nintendo reads. "The description of the book states that it is 'mainly visual', and the campaign … [Read more...] about Nintendo strikes down promising NES artbook Kickstarter