Games that were blatantly copied
As a companion to the "one off games that were never copied" thread, how about a list of games that were blatant copies of something else?
Here's one: "Operation Hanoi" from Players. It looks kind of like...well, a lot like...another game. ;)
Here's one: "Operation Hanoi" from Players. It looks kind of like...well, a lot like...another game. ;)
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I guess the basic bat n ball concept is ancient but surely the makers of batty were 'inspired' by arkanoid, specifically?
Oh yeah, definitely. Most of the power-ups in Batty were copied from Arkanoid.
Batty's a rare case of a copy that was better than the original though. The horizontal screen layout is better for a home computer, the use of colour is perfect, and it brought at least one extra feature to the party: magnetic obstacles that distort the path of the ball.
Disgraceful!
That's very clearly a copy of LA Drugs Bust!
;)
Even worse that's obviously a copy of Sharkey's moll
:o
;)
which is OBVIOUSLY a copy of!!
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0003427
Which makes me think that Yie Ar kung Fu was copied by Kickbox Vigilante.
Any fighter would do for this really, but you can see the influences from the source.
loads of games used re-used engines though.. or well not overly modified.. and then re sold.. (excluding the infamous harry price)
there is a silverbird game with a wizard right to left scrolling.. and the same game with different gfx was put out as a mag game.
Was a blatant copy of the Wally Week games, but was so well done and released as a budget game so they got away with it.
So was the happiest days of your life, but that was sh*t.
...An extremely bog standard Shinobi clone, but for 2 or 3 quid I suppose it was OK.
took a little 'inspiration' from Hydrofool
And The Happiest Days Of Your Life also copied it. They also lied about the name.
That doesn't look too bad :)
I'll give it 1 point for using colour, and another point for the amusement provided by the very special animation of the enemy soldiers.
I'm sure I could never get past level 5 on Batty (or even 3?).
On strategy games, Vulcan had a few inferior copies from the same CCS label. EG Invasion Force, Crete 1941, Avalanche.
That can't be the real A Team, their shots always miss!
That game is rock hard. I tried playing it with infinite lives once and still couldn't finish it. There was always one brick tucked away somewhere that I just couldn't get to.
I'd say Batty was more a copy of Arkanoid II (Revenge of Doh) in terms of the paddle movement and screen backgrounds. Not that it makes that much difference when you compare similar breakout games of course.
Probably, but Batty has a vastly better colour choice. In Arkanoid II, everything except the bricks is camouflaged against the "70s wallpaper" backdrops. :(
Batty got it just right. The backdrops don't interfere with the action, and the balls have a solid shadow to help pick them out. The bricks look great, with a white highlight and black outine.
Arkanoid-Arkanoid 2-Batty
'course, they both ripped off Thro' the Wall.
Gah, that's the one... Trying to get those last bricks at the end of the tunnel..!
If only he hadn't taken so long to release them all that every single one of them actually came out after a game that was blatantly ripping it off he would have been hailed as a genius :)