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Brain Training Professor Earns $22M, Is Beyond Stupid.

Submitted by on February 8, 2008 – 8:04 pm5 Comments

ryuta_k_brain_training.pngGot a DS? Then you’ve probably been one of the zillions of people who have bought one of the Brain Training games. Professor Ryuta Kawashima created the series of games and he’s apparently got some teeth in ownership of them. You see instead of ripping them off and selling them to the great unwashed masses in search of learning by tapping, Nintendo actually played by the rules of intellectual property law and is cutting the good professor a check for his efforts.

The guy is basically set for life with royalties on the games stacking up to a whopping $22 million over just two and a half years of worldwide sales. So what does he want to do with the money?

Not take it! Not take the fricken money! He is REFUSING the royalties. Saying no, nyet, nein, nada nil to them. I don’t give a flying fig if he’s a workaholic. That’s twenty two million dollars or heck two point four billion yen. What is WRONG with this guy! GAH!

I have to go lie down.

Source: AFP at Google News

  • http://eklipse.net morphiend

    I think its a Good Thing (TM). It proves that not everyone is out to make oodles of money and screw people over. He did it because:

    a) He likes to teach, therefore he wanted to teach as many people as possible.
    b) He knows that people needed something else to do besides kill zombies (mmm…. zombies…) on their consoles.

    I laud the guy for his work. He clearly works for all the right reasons. If only more people could be like him.

  • Paul Munn

    Morphiend I see your point, but he could take the money and still teach. I’m not saying he should take the money and retire or anything. It’s rightfully his. If he just throws it into a giant savings account and lives off the interest while he does all the research and teaching his heart desires that would be much more sane than not taking it for himself.

  • http://eklipse.net morphiend

    He could take the money and place it in a fund to aid schooling or something, but I don’t think HE necessarily needs to have it.

  • Paul Munn

    That’s actually what he did, sort of. He donated it to his department. He must have tenure. :-)

  • Sifer2400

    im sure he is rich enough that he doesn’t need that money besides now he’s the “honorable” Guy lol i personally would have took just enough to live off the ret of my life and donate the rest lets say maby like 10 mil lol