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Turrican
Turrican (1990)
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The Turrican soundtrack features two tracks that plagiarized the score of the 1986 film "The Transformers: The Movie". The title theme is directly based on the track "Escape", while the ending credits theme features a rearrangement of the track "Death of Optimus Prime".
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Development, General, Inspiration, Music, Plagiarism
person Cyberlink420 calendar_month March 28, 2018
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Freddi Fish and The Case of the Missing Kelp Seeds
Freddi Fish and The Case of the Missing Kelp Seeds (1994)
subdirectory_arrow_right Spy Fox in "Dry Cereal" (Game), Pajama Sam In: No Need to Hide When It's Dark Outside (Game), ScummVM Team (Company), Majesco Entertainment (Company)
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Pajama Sam: No Need to Hide When It's Dark Outside and Freddi Fish and the Case of the Missing Kelp Seeds were released on the Wii as Pajama Sam: Don’t Fear the Dark and Freddi Fish: Kelp Seed Mystery respectively, alongside Spy Fox: Dry Cereal, which kept its name. However, these ports ran off of the ScummVM emulator engine and did not use proper attribution, leading to all unsold copies of the games being removed from sale and destroyed, and mandatory donations being made to the Free Software Foundation.
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Complaint, Console Difference, Plagiarism, Release Difference, Version Difference
person GamerBen144 calendar_month February 17, 2022
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Crystalis
Crystalis (1990)
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Attachment The Poison Forest appears to lift its visuals directly from the Toxic Jungle from the 1984 anime film "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind", with the area's boss, the Giant Insect, bearing extreme similarities to the Ohmu from that film.
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Development, Inspiration, Plagiarism, Similarities
person MehDeletingLater calendar_month September 2, 2022
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Tiny Toon Adventures
Tiny Toon Adventures (1991)
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Attachment As discovered on the French blog UPSILANDRE RETROGAMING, the movement code for the NES version of Tiny Toon Adventures by Konami was directly plagiarized from Super Mario Bros. 3, giving the two games near-identical play-feels.
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Controls, Development, Inspiration, Plagiarism, Secret, Similarities
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 4, 2023
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Franchise: Mario
subdirectory_arrow_right Nintendo (Company)
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Lexibook, a company infamous for low-quality unlicensed NES-based consoles (or "Famiclones") featuring plagiarized content from a variety of sources including Nintendo games, entered an official agreement with Nintendo in 2020 to license various Nintendo IPs including Animal Crossing, The Legend of Zelda, and Mario.
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General, Merchandise, Plagiarism, Real Life
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 4, 2023
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Mickey Mouse
Mickey Mouse (1981)
subdirectory_arrow_right Egg (Game)
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A popular rumor existed within Russian school playgrounds relating to the Elektronika IM-02, a Soviet-era Russian bootleg version of the Game & Watch game Mickey Mouse/Egg featuring characters from the Russian cartoon Nu, Pogodi!. The rumor claimed that if one achieved 1,000 points in the game, the device would play a full episode of the cartoon.
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Plagiarism, Real Life, Regional Difference, Reskin, Rumor
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 4, 2023
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Neopets Browser
Neopets Browser (1999)
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Attachment The original version of the Bruce Neopet was a photograph of the British celebrity Bruce Forsyth. This was changed to an illustration of Forsyth, and eventually an anthropomorphic penguin.
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Cameo, Plagiarism, Real Life, Unused Character, Update Difference
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 7, 2023
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Pac-Man
Pac-Man (1980)
subdirectory_arrow_right Pac-Man (Franchise), Takara Tomy (Company)
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Attachment The first appearance of a yellow, spherical character named "Puck-Man" with a ravenous appetite was a 1974 bank toy by Tomy, which came in a variety of colors including yellow. It is unknown if the video game character was plagiarized or Pac-Man's design similarities are all a bizarre coincidence, with game creator Toru Iwatani claiming in an unrelated court hearing to have not heard of the toy until after the release of the game. No legal action was taken by Tomy, and the 1970's Tomy Puck-Man toys would be rebranded with Namco's Pac-Man after the success of the game.
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Development, Merchandise, Plagiarism, Real Life, Similarities
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 7, 2023
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The Real Ghostbusters
The Real Ghostbusters (1993)
subdirectory_arrow_right Mickey Mouse IV: Mahou no Labyrinth (Game), Garfield Labyrinth (Game), P.P. Hammer and His Pneumatic Weapon (Game)
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The level layouts of The Real Ghostbusters/Garfield Labyrinth/Mickey Mouse IV: Mahou no Labyrinth were directly copied from P.P. Hammer and his Pneumatic Weapon without permission.
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Plagiarism
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 7, 2023
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Awesome Possum Kicks Dr. Machino's Butt
Awesome Possum Kicks Dr. Machino's Butt (1993)
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Upon the release of Awesome Possum... Kicks Dr. Machino's Butt, Time Warner Interactive was sued by Paul A. Roginski, who claimed that the game copied an unreleased manuscript for a comic book with a similar environmentalist theming and the same protagonist name. The court ruled in favor of Time Warner and Tengen.
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Complaint, Plagiarism, Real Life
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 7, 2023
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Double Dribble
Double Dribble (1986)
subdirectory_arrow_right Family Guy (Franchise)
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In a 2016 Family Guy episode titled "Run, Chris, Run!", footage was used from a YouTube video of a glitch in the NES game Double Dribble by user Sw1tched without permission from either Sw1tched or Konami. This would result in the footage being added to YouTube's content ID system as Family Guy footage and accidentally removed. The video was eventually reinstated after intervention from show creator Seth MacFarlane.
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Meme, Mistake, Plagiarism, Real Life
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 7, 2023
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Midnight Mutants
Midnight Mutants (1990)
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Attachment The box art of the game uses an image based on Al Lewis' portrayal of Grandpa Munster in the 1964 The Munsters sitcom and claims the game to be "Featuring... 'GRAMPA'". Despite this, neither Al Lewis nor The Munsters are mentioned on the game's copyright disclaimers and credits, and 'GRAMPA' is not the player character.
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Advertisement/Commercial, Cameo, Credits, Inspiration, Plagiarism
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 9, 2023
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The Great Giana Sisters
The Great Giana Sisters (1987)
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Attachment It is often rumored that Nintendo filed a lawsuit or sent a C&D to Rainbow Arts over The Great Giana Sisters' resemblance to Super Mario Bros. - however, according to the game's music composer Chris Hülsbeck, this is not true, Nintendo only sent Rainbow Arts an "angry letter" over the UK release's cover art containing the phrase "the brothers are history!", leading to the game being pulled.
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Advertisement/Commercial, Complaint, Plagiarism, Rumor
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 10, 2023
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Chrono Trigger
Chrono Trigger (1995)
subdirectory_arrow_right Chrono Trigger (Game), The Hobbit (Game)
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Attachment One of the music tracks in the Game Boy Advance version of The Hobbit, "The Magic Music Box" is plagiarized from "Singing Mountain", an unused song from Chrono Trigger that was initially released on the game's 1995 soundtrack album, and would eventually be added into the DS version of the game.
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Music, Plagiarism, Unused Audio
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Comparison video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NJbX0ggVEM

Both songs were uploaded to the SiIvaGunner pastiche channel "TimmyTurnersGrandDad" under bait-and-switch titles of each song name, but are unedited despite this.

Chrono Trigger 1995 Soundtrack - 歌う山 (UNRELEASED TRACK):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeFHtt-r7o0

Chrono Trigger DS - Singing Mountain:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXgmnVWoJVM

The Hobbit - The Magic Music Box:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vlev1nUgDo
Flying Gorilla
Flying Gorilla (2015)
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In 2022, Pinbit LLC, the developer of Flying Gorilla, uploaded a pre-roll advertisement on YouTube using copyrighted footage from the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "I Had an Accident", presumably without permission, as well as the tagline "Gorilla's Bizarre Adventure", referencing Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. The advertisement for the game itself had been previously released on its own without the copyrighted content, alongside an advertisement for a related game they produced called Run! Gorilla that appears to have been removed from app stores for unknown reasons.
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Advertisement/Commercial, Plagiarism, Reference
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 16, 2023
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The Bee Game
The Bee Game (2007)
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Die Biene Maja: Klatschmohnwiese in Gefahr was released in the US under the title of The Bee Game, seemingly taking advantage of a convenient timing to the release of DreamWorks Animation's Bee Movie by removing the association with the Maya the Bee brand, which has had a lesser cultural footprint in the US compared to other regions.
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General, Plagiarism, Regional Difference
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 16, 2023
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Sonic Superstars
Sonic Superstars (2023)
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Attachment In June 2023, the character models for the game received complaints on Twitter by fan artist Rafa Knight, who noted that they resembled her own models of the characters that had been used for merchandise, even having the same minor imperfections as the toys. She claimed she had not been credited for her work either, instead being ignored by Sega and other related figures. In response, Katie Chrzanowski, the social media manager for Sega of America, apologized for the misunderstanding and explained that the models were custom-made for Sonic Superstars, and promised to privately email Knight with more details later on. It's unknown if any more developments in this controversy happened since.
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Censorship, Complaint, Fan Works, Plagiarism, Real Life, Social Media
person chocolatejr9 calendar_month September 19, 2023
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Shrek: Dragon's Tale
Shrek: Dragon's Tale (2006)
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Attachment The soundtrack for Shrek: Dragon's Tale contains numerous instances of plagiarized content from Nintendo games, particularly Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
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Music, Plagiarism
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 23, 2023
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Somari
Somari (1994)
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Attachment Somari contains an unused file for a logo labeled "MARIO", implying that the game may have originally been intended to be posed as a new Mario installment in a similar vein to other bootlegs such as Super Mario Bros. 7: Grand Dad instead of a game starring a new semi-original character.
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Early Idea, Plagiarism, Unused Graphic, Unused Text
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 24, 2023
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Donkey Kong 5: The Journey of Over Time and Space
Donkey Kong 5: The Journey of Over Time and Space (2001)
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There exists 5 versions of Donkey Kong 5: The Journey of Over Time and Space:

• The original version featuring Donkey Kong
• Harry Boy and the Chamber of Secrets, featuring characters from Harry Potter
• 2003 Digitmon Sapphire featuring Digimon and Bubble Bobble characters
• Super Marrio Sunshine, which is identical to Over Time and Space aside from a different title screen and an added glitch, still featuring Donkey Kong and not Mario
• Digit Dinosaur 7: The Adventrue of Devildom which is identical to Digitmon aside from a different title screen, and is theorized to predate it due to having Sintax's copyright info.

Of the 3 main releases, the level layouts are closest to Super Mario Bros. in Digitmon, and least accurate in Harry Boy.
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Fan Works, Plagiarism, Similarities, Theory, Version Difference
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 25, 2023
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Donkey Kong 5: The Journey of Over Time and Space:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-NKExQIaho

Harry Boy and the Chamber of Secrets:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHUhe1f0Yb0

2003 Digitmon Sapphire:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u7sPTk6OdU

Super Marrio Sunshine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IBv9ejxM0o

Digit Dinosaur 7: The Adventrue of Devildom
https://repo.12bit.club/gb/21
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