Naming characters after real people in video games should only be done for video game industry people or as homage for big Icons like Michael Jordan, Michael Jackson, ETC. not people that could or not have become icons.

The fact that Double Dribble was released for the NES doesn’t entitle Nintendo to any royalties in this or any other case, the publisher of the game was Konami. The way things have always worked is a publisher pays a console manufacturer a fixed(license) fee for releasing a game for such console, but the publisher…