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6 RIDICULOUS KNOCK-OFF VIDEO GAMES

12/8/2015

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Stealing stuff is easy; it's basically like buying things, but without having to touch other people's money germs. 

Just ask all the thieving knaves who passed off Mr Biffo's recent viral Twitter pictures as their own. Not that he cares, of course. He's, like, super fly chill, guy. He stole the pictures in the first place after all. 

All he did was have the profound genius flash of inspiration to put them together in comedic fashion; there was barely any creativity involved whosoever. Right, Metro and Digital Spy and assorted users of Reddit and Twitter? RIGHT?!

Still. People have been stealing other people's work for years. Just imagine how the creators of Pokemon, Mario and Sonic feel about this tawdry sextet of pilferage.

6. DRUMMER!! POKEMON (Mega Drive/Genesis)
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Apart from the inclusion of Pikachu's smiling, pretty mouth - oh, how we'd like to fill it with buttons and mince - there's nothing much to link Drummer!! Pokemon to the official Pokemon brand. It's just a comically basic rhythm action game, fronted by a capering CBeebies reject.
5. TITENIC (NES)
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Yes, that's right. It's a side-scrolling platform beat 'em up inspired by the smash hit move "Titenic". You know - the James Cameron movie that was full of the sort of axe-wielding and leaping around and being attacked by rats that lends itself to video games. Not to be confused with the James  Cameron movie "Titanic", which was nothing of the sort, or Tit a' Nick - the prancing, 15th Century ninny.
4. SOMARI (NES)
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How to make Sonic feel like more of a natural fit on the Nintendo Entertainment System? Turn him into Mario, y'big idiot! Other than that, this is a surprisingly swift and authentic port of the first Sonic the Hedgehog game - albeit with the inclusion of Sonic 2's spin dash, and some changes to the level layouts. 

Look at Somario in that picture up there. Just look at him. We suspect he's flashing those fingers at an off-screen Sega executive. "Ha ha," he's saying. "I've infringed-a upon-a your intellectual-a property rights!"
3. SUPER MARIO 4: A SPACE ODYSSEY (Mega Drive/Genesis)
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Annnnnnnd - providing you can overlook the stripped-back animation and clunky controls - this is Super Mario on the Mega Drive/Genesis. Ish. 

We think this might be the only game in which Mario legitimately goes into space. Super Mario Galaxy doesn't count, as we believe that series is meant to represent of the hallucinatory consequences of Mario inadvertently consuming the wrong sort of mushrooms.
2. GRAND DAD 7 (NES)
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A remix of a whole bunch of different game elements, the basic template of Grand Dad 7 (yes - that's actually what it's called) appears to be some NES Flintstones game. 

However, in a bid to - presumably - capitalise on a certain Italian plumber's fanbase, they swapped out Fred Flintstone's head for Mario's. Apart from in the between-level story scenes. Which makes it very difficult to follow an already complex and emotionally rich plot.
1. AVATAR (Mega Drive/Genesis)
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Jim Power: The Arcade Game was an unreleased Mega Drive game, that somehow got leaked onto the grubby floor of the Internet. Somewhere along the line, some boffin thought it would be possible to pass it off as game based upon the James Cameron movie Avatar. They were wrong. So very catastrophically wrong. Not to be confused with "Ava Tarp", the inventor of tarps.
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9 Comments
Voodoo76
12/8/2015 05:49:16 am

I'm sad, i don't think i'll ever feel the love for games as used to have as a kid again. Please help, will I ever get that same feeling of playing Mario 64 for the first time again? Playing Fifa 15 on an evening just doesn't do it.

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MrDrinks
12/8/2015 06:09:09 am

Have you play Mario Galaxy 2? It wipes the floor with Mario 64 and has enough new mechanics gradually introduced that it always feels fresh.

Either that or Bayonetta 2 which is so mad it will singe itself into your retinas so you don't need to worry about playing anything else ever again.

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lilock3
12/8/2015 06:04:41 am

Hate to huff on your article, but Mario definitely goes into space in Super Mario Land 2. He visits “Space Zone”, which is where the Moon is of course, and gets to floaty-jump around in low gravity. He gets a proper spacesuit and everything! And he travels to this “Space Zone” in a bubble blown by a hippo. If that isn’t legitimate space travel, then I don’t know what is.

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Mr Biffo
12/8/2015 08:32:19 am

That was a dream.

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lilock3
12/8/2015 08:49:22 am

Oh... but... no... hang-on... wait, I've got it! That was the game that introduced Wario. Are you saying that Wario is a figment of Mario's unconscious mind? And all the WarioLand and WarioWare games? Where does that leave Waluigi? Next you'll be telling me that all the Nintendo characters are make-believe!

MrDrinks
12/8/2015 06:05:28 am

I might give up Rage and The Witcher 3 until I've played all the way though GRAND DAD 7. They really missed a trick by not having the name beside the health bar read "FRED (mario)"

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Simon
12/8/2015 07:36:02 am

I can't stop laughing at those Mario/Sonic rip off and the fact that no one was sued!

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Simon
12/8/2015 07:38:07 am

..."that" not "those"...drinking diet coke at lunch stops my brain from working

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Stacey
21/8/2015 05:00:11 pm

I got on the wrong end of some tutting while watching Titanic at the cinema for laughing during the sinking section when the ship up ends and some of the unfortunate passengers fall down into the sea, bouncing off the railings.

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