Author Topic: Game music plagiarism thread (Read 14095 times)

S-U-P-E-R · « **on:** February 13, 2006, 04:49:49 PM »

Every now and then game music is pretty much a rip off of popular (or niche) music!

Doom and Doom II ones are somewhat well known - Pantera, Slayer, Alice in Chains, etc. Google these up!

One I found myself, was Blast Corps' music for Tempest City is a really, really close copy of Frontline Assembly's Circuitry (which came out in 1995 - also, you might know Frontline Assembly from doing some music for Quake 3)

Also, Sonic the Hedgehog's Spring Yard Zone music sounds a lot like Paula Abdul's Straight Up Now Tell Me, but that might just be me.

Anybody got any others?

JonLeung · « **Reply #1 on:** February 13, 2006, 05:51:57 PM »

Britney Spears' (You Drive Me) Crazy resembles Super Mario Bros. underground music. Well, the beginnings of both are kinda similar.

There's that Richard Atley song that sounds like Robo's theme from Chrono Trigger.

The theme from the Bruckheimer film The Rock sounds like a track from Final Fantasy VIII.

Apparently there's some old song that someone at Capcom decided to make Elec Man's stage music from.

Shecky · « **Reply #2 on:** February 13, 2006, 06:20:59 PM »

Wait, which way are we looking for here. Games that rip off music, or music that rip off games (or does it mater?)

Didn't Nine Inch Nails do some of the music for Doom? (Hmm, actually maybe it was Quake?)

I had some really good examples of Music ripping some tones (usually background/beat) from games. Talk about drawing a blank though.

KDR_11k · « **Reply #3 on:** February 13, 2006, 08:24:16 PM »

NIN made the music (and the rest of the sound I think, you can see the NIN logo on the nailgun ammo crates) for Quake 1. At first they were hired as sound designers for Doom 3 but they quit for some reason (bastards).

vudu · « **Reply #4 on:** February 14, 2006, 08:16:18 AM »

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At first they were hired as sound designers for Doom 3 but they quit for some reason (bastards).

Trent quit because he and John R were discussing the possibilities of making a game that was so engrossing it didn't need music. A noble idea, even if the final result did fall a little flat.

Back to the original topic, this isn't really plagiarism, but Rammstein samples the original Doom shotgun reload sound in the song Wollt Ihr Das Bett In Flammen Sehen?. Also, Bloodhound Gang samples the Pac-Man theme in the song Mope. I thought you'd all like to know. But if we turn this into a video game sample thread it's going to get really big really fast.

Ian Sane · « **Reply #5 on:** February 14, 2006, 08:41:55 AM »

The opening theme to Final Fantasy VI is so obviously a rip off of that piece of classical music that's used in 2001 and that Ric Flair uses for his entrance theme. The name's something in German I think.

Shecky · « **Reply #6 on:** February 14, 2006, 09:48:11 AM »

Zarathustra by Richard Strauss

There's a modern song that pulls a bit from the the punchout jogging segments. Since I'm horrible with song names and artists I have no idea what it's called.

KDR_11k · « **Reply #7 on:** February 14, 2006, 10:06:02 AM »

Hm... Apart from Tetris using that Russian folk song (Korobeyniki?), I've seen classical pieces used in various C64 games. A game whose name I can't recall (Zenon, I think) used Mussorgsky's Pictures At An Exhibition interlude as its title theme, The Incredible Machine had it as a level music. The Train used the french national anthem as its title theme. I'm not sure what the song Elite uses for its title is but it's something classical (and I think it differs from platform to platform).

JonLeung · « **Reply #8 on:** February 14, 2006, 10:15:34 AM »

If we're talking about classical music, I know that both Yoshi's Cookie and Crash 'N The Boys: Street Challenge use the same classical piece of music.

darknight06 · « **Reply #9 on:** February 14, 2006, 10:41:33 AM »

This is more sound effect plagiarism than anything, but play Street Fighter 2 or SF2T for SNES. Listen to the punch and kick sound effects. (connecting, whiffing, etc.) Now go play Sega's Eternal Champions. Notice how the sound effects for punches and kicks are EXACTLY THE SAME! I still get a WTF moment from it.

S-U-P-E-R · « **Reply #10 on:** February 14, 2006, 11:51:35 AM »

Now that you mention it, there are are a lot of singing samples I've heard in several different games/places that must be off of sampler CDs somewhere.
The singing in Let Them Move from DDR and the opening from KOF Maximum Impact are the same singing, and I've heard it at least one other place too, probably in some IIDX song.
I heard the same singing sample in some dental product commercial and in Dance Maniax. (lol)
Same singing in one of the WWE games and Capcom vs SNK 1 (for the alley music in the JPN version - they took it out in the US ver)

JonLeung · « **Reply #11 on:** February 14, 2006, 11:53:06 AM »

Aerosmith and Run DMC - Walk This Way sounds REALLY REALLY CLOSE to the opening of The King Of Fighters '98.

darknight06 · « **Reply #12 on:** February 14, 2006, 12:42:55 PM »

"The singing in Let Them Move from DDR and the opening from KOF Maximum Impact are the same singing, and I've heard it at least one other place too, probably in some IIDX song."

Now THAT I'm gonna have to check out, I didn't think anyone would use samples from LET THEM MOVE of all things. lol

Now that I think about it, anybody familiar with Pump it Up should know of a song with difficult steps by Banya called X-Treme. Apparently in DDR Festival and through Ultramix sound packs there's a song called Gorgeous 2012 by The Surrenders that has lyrics seemingly taken from X-Treme except that the song is slower paced. I don't know which song was created first, but I'm kinda leaning on X-Treme in this case.

Stimutacs Addict · « **Reply #13 on:** February 14, 2006, 06:07:17 PM »

theres some Perfect Dark song that sounds awfully similar to vocal harmonies in Porcupine Tree's "Lips of Ashes"

couchmonkey · « **Reply #14 on:** February 15, 2006, 07:05:05 AM »

SUPER got me thinking on a tangent, there's this guitar riff that I hear ALL OVER the place...most recently in the movie Serenity, but also in the show Reboot, starting in season 3, I think, and in other shows, usually sci-fi, the sound is used to signal something surprising or scary. I wonder where it came from?

I haven't heard any songs that I thought really sounded like a game song or vice versa.

mantidor · « **Reply #15 on:** February 15, 2006, 06:08:40 PM »

Talking about plagiarism, I have a question thats been bothering me this past months. I listened to a certain remix called the games we played, author aspergian (you should check it out, its pretty great, Id link it but vgmix seems down for some reason), at around mark 12:00 I start hearing a familiar tune, is the NES Lode Runer tune! but to my surprise this part is identified as the Giana Sisters theme, shocked I tried to find both tunes and apparently they are the same, someone copied someone, but Im not sure who, I have no idea what game was first.

S-U-P-E-R · « **Reply #16 on:** February 15, 2006, 06:21:48 PM »

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Originally posted by: mantidor
Talking about plagiarism, I have a question thats been bothering me this past months. I listened to a certain remix called the games we played, author aspergian (you should check it out, its pretty great, Id link it but vgmix seems down for some reason), at around mark 12:00 I start hearing a familiar tune, is the NES Lode Runer tune! but to my surprise this part is identified as the Giana Sisters theme, shocked I tried to find both tunes and apparently they are the same, someone copied someone, but Im not sure who, I have no idea what game was first.

It might have been the same guy that did music for both of them as he's pretty prolific

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Chris Huelsbeck: PC and videogame musician born 1968 in Kassel, Germany. He found himself dedicated to music at a very young age and started some piano lessons. At 14 he got his first computer, the legendary Commodore 64 were he started to learn programming. Some years later he won the first price in a computer-music contest in a famous German computer magazine. This was the beginning of his career as a professional composer for computer- and videogame soundtracks. Since 12 years he has written music for over 70 software titles incl. the latest title "Star Wars Rogue Squadron" for Nintendo 64 and PC.

However, I may also be error

ThePerm · « **Reply #17 on:** February 15, 2006, 07:18:47 PM »

banjo kazooie and the teddy bears picnic

http://members.tripod.com/~bigbee/
teddy bears picnic vs

banjo kazooie -grunty's lair

KDR_11k · « **Reply #18 on:** February 16, 2006, 12:11:06 AM »

mantidor: I don't hear it. Comparing Giana Sisters (C64) and Lode Runner (NES) I don't hear even the slightest similarity. Maybe the theme was completely different in the Amiga version but there's no similarity to be found in the C64 version.

S-U-P-E-R · « **Reply #19 on:** April 09, 2006, 12:18:57 PM »

Bumpin' this
http://youtube.com/watch?v=JbVM-l2Oku4

TheYoungerPlumber · « **Reply #20 on:** April 09, 2006, 05:31:50 PM »

Indeed. I've always wondered about Sonic & Knuckles Colleciton's music....though I believe the Sonic 3 credits music remains unchanged in S&KC....

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