Asset Plagiarism - Font and Colour Scheme

From the unbelievable to the downright bizarre - I've got shit covered.

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets vs Mass Effect

Although based on Pierre Christin's comic series Valérian and Laureline, Luc Besson's glitzy box-office bomb is basically an unofficial Mass Effect film.

X-Man vs X-Men

Street Hockey '95 vs Street Fighter

Actionware¹ (1988-1990) vs Raiders of the Lost Ark

¹Company was founded in Batavia, Illinois.  Hardware engineer Richard Parry figured out how to modify a NES Zapper to make lightgun compatible with an Amiga.

Capone, SideShow, P.O.W. and Creature all supported bootleg peripheral.

If Nintendo knew, surely they would've sued.

When Parry moved away in the early 90's, that's all they wrote.

Overlord² (2018) vs Return to Castle Wolfenstein

²Should have been subbed 'Operation Resurrection'.

Arkanoid vs Tron

Mr. Robot (2015-2019) vs Sega (since 1976)

Hmmm, curious.

And.

Conker: Live & Reloaded

Oh my glazed days.

Cinemaware vs Commando

Company and arcade (unrelated to Schwarzenegger classic of same name) were founded and released in 1985.

What came first remains unknown.

Anyway, Capcom continued the trend with Forgotten Worlds.

Another chicken and egg situation.

Growl³ vs Mercs (February 1990)

³Park rangers vs poachers was originally released in Japan as Runark in 1990.

However, some sources claim January 1991.

Rygar

1986 arcade was converted to a host of home computers in 1988.  Lynx version came out in 1990.

Famicom game Arugosu no Senshi: Hachamecha Daishingeki (Warrior of Argus: Extreme Great Charge) wore Metroid guise and was released in 1987.

North American port came out in same year.

Apart from the obvious, logo (unique to title screen) is IDENTICAL to Mercs.

Okay, it's plausible Tecmo took cues from Commando, but...

Turbo Sub vs Defender

Robocop and Robocop 2

Film posters

Computer games (note splash of added colour)

Suburban Commando

Pile of Shep was adapted for home computers in 1993.

Title screen is scarier than Hulkster's smile.

Best or worst of all.

Lynx port of Turbo Sub must've thought it was 'part sub, part machine'.

HA HA HA!

Threat incoming.

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon (2013)

Hard Edge (1998)

What's this guys?

Ultima was developed for the Apple II in 1981.

And the WEIRD part.

In 1986, Origin Systems completely re-coded Ultima I in Assembly, significantly improving running speed and graphics.

Never mind technical feat, WHY the FUCK did they alter logo?

Answer to mystery (and what went before) might just be Elite (officially Elite Systems).

British developer and publisher was established in 1984.

Metalbeast⁴

⁴UK title, aka Project Metalbeast.

I stumbled across this thumbnail on Amazon Prime.

Forget about 'Project', Metalbeast is a Snake, and a Solid one at that.

Metal Gear Solid

Did batshit crazy decision get more clicks?

Expect not.

Dying of the Light vs The Evil Within

Gotta admire obscure balls.

Castlevania: Lament of Innocence (simply called Castlevania in Europe, Japan and Australia), saw the debut of Leon Belmont and the first to use 'C' logo in this way.

Excluding 'classic' remakes, Konami never looked back.

Idea may have stemmed from Contra.

But I'm suggesting:

La Chiesa (The Church)

Coincidence?

Maybe, maybe not.