Asset Plagiarism - Final Theft

Expect the unexpected.

Soft & Cuddly vs The Lurking Fear - H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus 2: Dagon and Other Macabre Tales

While Tim White is openly credited for various illustrations in the 8-bit/16-bit era (Obitus, Leander, Terrorpods etc), there is no record of the above being licensed.

Back cover (like several others from The Power House), used his robot mouse from Geezenstacks, presumably with permission.

Pedro V Krajine vs For a Few Dollars More

Shit¹ vs The Howling III: Echoes

¹At least title of Pac-Man clone was self-aware.

B-17 Flying Fortress vs Frank Powolny's 1943 photo of Betty Grable

To See the Stars: The Urban Adventures of Giuseppe Bergman vs Three Studies at the Base of a Crucifixion (right panel detail) - Francis Bacon

Mutant Fighter aka Death Brade vs Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom (Tudor Crown)

WTF?

Sound of Silence² vs Insidious: The Last Key

²Monstrous hand was flipped and modified.

Thirst³, The Hunt (novel) and Against the Dark

³2009 re-release of 1979 film, ntbcw unrelated 2009 South Korean film of same name.

Alien Predators aka Alien Predator and The Falling vs The Guardian Legend vs Creature (1985) aka The Titan Find

Bruce Lee

China Warrior vs Game of Death (1978)

Mortal Kombat (1992) - Liu Kang ending vs Enter the Dragon (1973)

Yep, Midway's tribute to the great man stands in front of stolen crowd.

Very sneaky.

Dawn of the Dead

Cancer - To the Gory End vs Machete Zombie

Gloom 3⁴ aka Ulimate Gloom (title screen) vs VHS (Director's Cut)

⁴Despite the number in title, this was actually the second game in the series.  According to rumour, it was called '3' because one of the devs confused Gloom Deluxe for Gloom 2, even though GD was just an updated version of the original.

What's this?

Bub - Day of the Dead

Err, yeah.

Bastard shows up again during ending.

Zombie Massacre

Although developed with the same engine, this was not Gloom '4'.

As you can see, intro makes no secret of the fact that game was inspired by George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead.

So why the FUCK is grainy footage lifted from Day?

HA HA HA!

And more bizarrely, game is nothing like Dawn or Day.

Rocky/Rocco (1985)

Although completely unlicensed, Spanish developer Dinaic Software somehow got away with using name.

Cover art vs Dempsey and Firpo - George Bellows

Protagonist vs Glass Joe - Punch-Out!!

Les Edwards

Myth (Amiga/C64 GS) vs Conan the Rebel, also used for White Dwarf #107 (November 1988)

Super Dropzone (December 1994) vs White Dwarf #55 (July 1984), also used for the 1984 edition of Gordon R. Dickson's novel Lost Dorsai

This is an interesting one.

Pigs (1973) - 2017 Blu-ray vs The City⁵

⁵1986 sequel to The Farm.

Fear #25, January 1991
Controversial work debuted uncut in a feature called Blood Magic.

T-rex

Jurassic Domination, Jurassic Thunder and Jurassic Valley aka Kingdom of the Dinosaurs

More. More. More.

Triassic World vs Carnivores vs A Prehistoric Tale

Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter⁶ vs Turok: Evolution

⁶ntbcw 2013 game of same name.

Jurassic Games vs Jurassic Island (original title - The Next Level: Escaping Rancala)

Frank Frazetta

I previously ran a feature dedicated to how others raped the Godfather of Fantasy Art.

https://nukesandknives.blogspot.com/2020/05/probably-everything-that-ripped-off_10.html

But here's some new shit that I didn't know at the time

Death Beast (1978) - Ray Feibush vs Fighting Man of Mars (1973)

So Feibush just added colour and changed people?

Fuck yeah

Geezer was also known for plagiarizing Bruce Pennington.

Mystery on Monster Island (1981)

Film is more an adaptation of Jules Verne's novel Godfrey Morgan, as opposed to The Mysterious Island.

Poster #1 vs Death Beast and/or Fighting Man of Mars

Poster #2 vs Girl and Sabre-Toothed Tiger, Tyrannosaurus Rex and characters⁷ from #1

⁷Source unknown.

Finally, a nice double-hit combo.

Satan's Blood (1978) vs Against the Gods and The Nightmare (detail) - Henry Fuseli (1781 version)

Multiples

Someone's Knocking at the Door⁸ vs Death by Engagement

⁸Man screaming in perpetual agony is lifted from a poster for Hostel.

Last Armageddon vs Devil Zone⁹

⁹Together with Metal Gear and/or Kyle Reese - The Terminator

Deep Blood vs Bad Dreams and Jaws the Revenge

The mind boggles.