LostLevel83 | 86 Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 I played Rival Turf (SNES) this week. It straight rips off Final Fight and even Street Fighter II in some ways. What games stick out to you as being a huge rip off of other games? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Tanooki | 4,950 Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 Well early 1991 gave us Street Fighter II, and late 1991 SNK copied the concept a little too closely given the designer helped create SF with Fatal Fury, and quickly followed Fatal Fury 2 which furthered the copying of SF2 by adding a woman and also rounding the the choice of 8 fighters you can use (up from 3) and also having 8 starter fights followed by 4 further boss/final boss fights just as how SF2 had been designed. Always a step behind when FF2 came out SF2CE had dropped where you could use those 4 bosses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkTone | 988 Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 Fortnite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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WhyNotZoidberg | 586 Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 11 hours ago, LostLevel83 said: I played Rival Turf (SNES) this week. It straight rips off Final Fight and even Street Fighter II in some ways. What games stick out to you as being a huge rip off of other games? Oh man I love Rival Turf. One thing it did right was including coop lol. Also on SNES you’ll have Fighter’s History, a 2D fighter that doesn’t even try. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdrunner | 422 Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 Even though it may not count when Capcom plays off their own stuff, "Street Fighter 2010: The Final Fight". It's absolutely nothing like the two games in its title, almost as if they were trying to fool people into buying the game based only on name recognition. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wongojack | 220 Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 If we go back to the 2600, every time I try to play Freeway by Activision, I think it is a bad rip off of Frogger. Some people love that game, but I can't get past the fact that it's just Frogger except I can't move side to side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Webhead123 | 687 Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 (edited) M.C. Kids is a pretty unashamed rip-off of Super Mario Bros. 3. If you squint a little, even the titular kids look like they could be stand-ins for the Mario Bros. with their artstyle and the general shape of their sprites. I mean, I guess I don't expect a whole lot of a video game from a fast-food chain (and the game is honestly better than it has any right to be, on those grounds) but originality certainly wasn't one of their high priorities, here. Depth Dwellers is a blatant (and awful) clone of Doom/Wolfenstein. Yeah, Doom's success saw it get lots of clones but Depth Dwellers was one of the earliest that didn't even try to hide what it was. It's (very) poor-man's Doom/Wolfenstein. Full stop. Kasumi Ninja is such a rip-off of Mortal Kombat that it's almost painful to think about. Maybe it could have been forgiven if it had any redeeming qualities but, no, it does not. Edited September 17, 2022 by Webhead123 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ankos | 463 Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 Animorphs GBC 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glazball | 172 Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 Biggest ripoffs? You mean like Naughty Dog asking $70 for the recent PS5 Last of Us remaster? 1 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbd39 | 2,029 Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 Frank Bruno's Boxing (C64) is pretty shameless. 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagusSmurf | 577 Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 The Krion Conquest always looked like one, particularly for being an officially licensed game on the same console as the franchise it's ripping off.. Never played it though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbd39 | 2,029 Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 NES Code Name Viper is awfully similar to Rolling Thunder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanooki | 4,950 Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 @mbd39 Wow nice one, totally forgot about the game. I learned about it some years back. Given the Punchout fan pool about over the years I'm surprised it doesn't get mentioned more often or maybe someone make a NES hack of it or PC retro port, something so people can check the thing out as it's truly interesting. Same with Viper, going back decades it was always Capcom ripping off Namco with that one on Rolling Thunder. Mind you, they did it better, though then by the time RT3 popped up on Genesis it's fairly like that Capcom game so it kind of went full circle of one aping the other and back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ankos | 463 Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 The pit is sort of a Dig Dug clone, though the further back a game was made, the more likely it got ripped off. Also, Prophecy the Viking Child for Gameboy kinda rips off Wonder Boy in Monster Land Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wongojack | 220 Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 3 hours ago, mbd39 said: Frank Bruno's Boxing (C64) is pretty shameless. Wow - I saw your post and thought "That must be a modern homebrew." Nope - 1985 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NESfiend | 1,515 Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 3 hours ago, mbd39 said: NES Code Name Viper is awfully similar to Rolling Thunder. Never played rolling thunder, but now I want to. CNV is a lot of fun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanooki | 4,950 Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 3 hours ago, NESfiend said: Never played rolling thunder, but now I want to. CNV is a lot of fun! Your loss, it's one of those Tengen carts which proved sometimes, in some rarer cases, unlicensed games kicked the crap out of a number of the licensed titles in quality. Given the pedigree though given Tengen is Atari, and the better stuff they did do was their own, Namco, Sega stuff too, it's not a huge surprise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strange | 1,700 Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 The creator of Puyo Puyo admitted to being afraid that people would accuse them of ripping off Dr. Mario, but when your game turns out waaay better than the one you allegedly ripped off then who cares if you did it or not Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sumez | 2,989 Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 12 hours ago, mbd39 said: Frank Bruno's Boxing (C64) is pretty shameless. I love how even the title music is a clear ripoff of Trans-X's Living On Video Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_wizard_666 | 1,325 Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 On 9/17/2022 at 6:18 AM, rdrunner said: Even though it may not count when Capcom plays off their own stuff, "Street Fighter 2010: The Final Fight". It's absolutely nothing like the two games in its title, almost as if they were trying to fool people into buying the game based only on name recognition. Wasn't that supposed to be a spinoff/sequel when it was released? It came out well before Street Fighter II was released, and the first game was far from groundbreaking, so I could see why they might've tried something like that at the time... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-type | 2,520 Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 Balloon Fight is a rip off of Joust 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ankos | 463 Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 (edited) 9 hours ago, the_wizard_666 said: Wasn't that supposed to be a spinoff/sequel when it was released? It came out well before Street Fighter II was released, and the first game was far from groundbreaking, so I could see why they might've tried something like that at the time... That reminds me. Final Fantasy Adventure was a spinoff that retroactively got changed to being its own series, and that game plays a lot like oldschool Zelda titles. It isn't shameless like the Great Gianna Sisters, but I think it counts Edited September 20, 2022 by Ankos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sumez | 2,989 Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 I don't really think Final Fantasy Adventure/Mystic Quest feels anything like Zelda at all? The only similarity really is the top-down perspective 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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