The Gameboy use a very similar system to make it harder to create cartridges not sanctioned by Apple. The cartridge would have to provide the Nintendo logo and

The Gameboy use a very similar system to make it harder to create cartridges not sanctioned by Apple. The cartridge would have to provide the Nintendo logo and the system would check it and then display it (there actually is a TOC/TOU vulnerability there that lets you display something other than the logo on startup). Because the cartridge had to provide the logo, not being licensed by Nintendo meant doing a copyright violation.