Saturday 2 December 2023

Asset Plagiarism - Fourth Theft

Miscellany

The Village That Fell Into Hell vs The Last Man


Official UK Playstation Magazine issue 8 (Resident Evil) vs The Evil Dead


Remember fighting Deadites in the Spencer mansion?

Neither do I.

Tales of Halloween (This Means War segment) vs Beetlejuice gravestone


Sneaky bastards.

Music

Porno¹ vs Crass - Penis Envy


¹Later republished as T2: Trainspotting after 2017 film of same name was released.

The surreal and nightmarish works of Zdzis∤aw BeksiƄski have adorned Wolok's Servum PecusDecayor's Recurring Times of Grief and Blood of Kingu's Sun in the House of the Scorpion.

However, some took another route.

Acid Sulphuric - Loss of the Body or Identity vs untitled 1983 painting


The inclusion of lens flare amuses.

And.

Serpentine Path - Serpentine Path vs untitled 1971 painting


A few more.

Catamenia - Eskhata vs Moonspell - Wolfheart


Contra - Songs About Feelings vs Prom Night (1980)


Busta Rhymes - Year of the Dragon
Winged beast (less flame breath) and soldiers are lifted from:

Monster Hunter (promo art for PS2 original) and Conan the Barbarian (2011)


What the fuck, right?

Video games

Precious little from South Korean developer SunA was original.


Breakout clone Brick Zone held Hajime Sorayama's Gynoids in high regard.


Syd of Valis¹ vs Sugoroku '92 Naritore Nariagari Trendy


¹With the exception of Yuko (centre), characters in the North American remake of Valis II are actually from other Telenet properties, such as Yu and Rim (Cosmic Fantasy) and Guy Kazama (Last Alert).

European Soccer Challenge² vs NASL Soccer³


²Atari Lynx port of Manchester United Europe.
³Atari 2600 version was renamed International Soccer.

Time to add extra spice.

Ninja Commando (1989) vs Ninja Terminator


Corya the Warrior - Sage vs Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes of the Lance⁴


⁴Jeff Easley's Dragon Duel from The Legend of Huma was also used for the Dragonlance board game.

Bio Menace (prior to each episode) vs Dragon Lord aka Dragon Breath


Utterly bizarre.

For the record, the former's cover art is completely different.

Saboteur *Amstrad CPC version shown) vs Revenge of the Ninja


The Super Shinobi aka The Revenge of Shinobi (1989) vs Kage no Gundan TV series

Wii Virtual Console (2009)
While retaining Sonny Chiba's likeness, they changed his eyes for attract sequence. 
Well that's alright then.

Golden Axe - Master System

Ax Battler became Tarik⁵, and stole various sources.

The Beastmaster (1982)


Dan Adkins' 1978 drawing of Conan


Arnold Schwarzenegger - Conan the Barbarian


Exorcism - Boris Vallejo


⁵Alias introduced in Golden Axe: Beast Rider.

Next time, it all ends.

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  3. The 1st image at the ending of the Master System's Golden Axe is from the "The Beastmaster" movie.

    Tarik is not a derivative of Ax Battler. In the game Golden Axe Beast Riders, he introduces himself as "I am Tarik the Ax Battler, Lord of the Frozen North". So Tarik and Ax Battler are the same barbarian.

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