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Sahuagin posted...

Blaqthourne posted...

^ Not sure why you brought up Lemmings immediately after talking about Japan. Lemmings was developed in Scotland, not Japan.

thanks, I did think Lemmings was Japanese since it was published by Sunsoft on Nintendo and Sega consoles. as someone else mentioned, it probably has more to do with the era than the location. I just had more known examples of it from Japan, except my main one turns out not even to be from there.

Yeah, it was a wild west back then.
The original Duke Nukem got graphics copied from that Megaman PC game (crates, nuclear barrels, background bricks) and multiple background assets and the flamethrower attack were copied from Turrican.
Jumpman was a game inspired by Donkey Kong. Which got a sequel called Jumpman Jr. Nothing wrong with that, but Apogee released a port called Jumpman Lives 8 years later, with all Jumpman and Jumpman Jr levels and some more, without having the right from the license owner, so they had to stop selling it.
That said, we have always had shameless ripoffs.
Fighters History VS Street Fighter 2, Pong VS Magnavox Odyssey's table tennis, The Great Giana Sisters VS Super Mario Bros, Golden Axe Warrior VS Legend of Zelda, Limbo of the Lost... stole everything from multiple bigname games..., Another Bound VS Metroid Prime, Final Combat VS Team Fortress 2, DuLuDubi Star VS Super Mario Galaxy, Sepia Go VS Splatoon, BoxMaker VS Super Mario Maker, etc etc.
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