Laziness or Inspiration?

[Justin Butler]

You decide:

>Professor Oak's Lab - Pokemon Red/Green (1996)
youtube.com/watch?v=sv1Bot_6-xU
>Chinese Dance - Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1892)
youtube.com/watch?v=llA1xOFRYj0

>Rocket Game Corner - Pokemon Red/Green (1996) ~(0:25)
youtube.com/watch?v=dE7csqs9UXc
>Room Theme - Bubble Bobble (1986) ~(0:20)
youtube.com/watch?v=KOuVKxzW4Do

>N's Farewell - Pokemon Black/White (2010)
youtube.com/watch?v=DzKRuwKyJmY
>Love Theme - Mother 3 (2006)
youtube.com/watch?v=idULzIIF950

[Ayden Jenkins]

They made some real good music in the 1800's, huh

[Benjamin Davis]

Hell yeah
youtube.com/watch?v=YyknBTm_YyM

[Robert Harris]

LMAO THAT NUTCRACKER SUITE COMPARISON
you gotta be kidding me

you are totally deaf

[Owen Anderson]

youtu.be/sv1Bot_6-xU
>0:07
Someone just walked into a wall.

[Gavin Jackson]

What's that theory called where everything is a copy of something?

[Carter Allen]

>On That Day, Five Years Ago... - Final Fantasy VII
youtube.com/watch?v=cgGq1WVUEP0

>The fucking Batman theme
youtube.com/watch?v=kRZAk2rfESU

[Kayden Rivera]

Where's the FFVII and Kraftwerk one

[Easton Watson]

is this a meme

[Blake Baker]

Anxious Heart
youtube.com/watch?v=UMvHTlWyxH0

Krafwerk - Spacelab (0:32)
youtube.com/watch?v=VH0Js8qdnyA

[Andrew Reyes]

Everything is a remix?

[Ryan Moore]

Bobby Prince is the absolute lord of this, not to bash the guy for it though, he has great taste in what he rips off.

>Running from Evil (MAP01)
youtu.be/UZcwiYmJwLo?t=18s
>Megadeth - Hangar 18
youtube.com/watch?v=B-oU2xlViRQ

>Shawn's got the Shotgun (MAP07)
youtube.com/watch?v=x3BOGtro8WA
>Slayer - South of Heaven
youtu.be/XtLvlaGJJEU?t=36s

>Bye Bye American Pie (MAP23)
youtube.com/watch?v=ICUuLrH4z0c
>Alice in Chains - Them Bones
youtu.be/zTuD8k3JvxQ?t=2s

[James Cooper]

neat

[David Morales]

Games have been doing this for decades.

[Adam Torres]

>N Farewell and Love Theme

Literally the first 3 seconds sounded like a slow down version of the beginning of the Love theme piano, and nothing else.

[Mason Bailey]

youtube.com/watch?v=vYQQ1PZHF8U

[Jacob Ortiz]

> Donkey Kong Country 2 - In A Snow-Bound Land (0:55 ~ 1:28)
youtube.com/watch?v=oYOdCD4mWsk

>Vangelis - Antarctica (1:20)
youtube.com/watch?v=GOwuniIgYXM

[Jace Green]

Vangelis - Messages (0:25)
youtube.com/watch?v=LgWNRsEVWnk#t=25s

Twilight Princess - City in the sky (0:59)
youtube.com/watch?v=9iWIhGymc9c#t=59s

IT'S OK WHEN NINTENDO DOES IT

[Justin Anderson]

fuck i thought i knew i had heard that shit before when i was playing ff7

i just couldnt place it

[Matthew Carter]

fuckers like you killed the mgs theme

[Chase Moore]

there was a bunch of shit about the original fallout's soundtracks and how mark morgan (fallout 1&2's composer) basically copied aphex twin

youtube.com/watch?v=log0l7UYcR8

[Jonathan Hernandez]

This isn't game-related, but it took me forever to remember where Muse had stolen this tune from.

youtube.com/watch?v=OqPVz101nd0
youtube.com/watch?v=x9j6DE6RnSk

I actually tried to Google it, but searches for Muse and plagiarism get a lot of results, so I didn't actually find what I wanted.

The first example here is really blatant. I don't think they were even trying to hide it.

[Aaron Johnson]

youtube.com/watch?v=MDcm9LioeDg

Literally 1:1 the Disco Train theme

David Wise is a hack

[Daniel Campbell]

soundcloud.com/user-518667143/disco-train-ok-quality-rip-donkey-kong-country-2

[Jace Wilson]

youtube.com/watch?v=cUZ5XzsHN-c

[Connor Hernandez]

Apparently the IceCap music from Sonic 3 had some ties to Michael Jackson.
youtube.com/watch?v=H2OWC5Hosv8

[Asher Brown]

Top kek

[Colton Wilson]

> Ys IV - The Ordeal Becomes Great
youtube.com/watch?v=572Dq97s6kA
> Yngwie Malmsteen - Far Beyond The Sun
youtube.com/watch?v=SAsHFSrh0i8

> Doom - I Sawed The Demons
youtube.com/watch?v=NlWDSvNSzlA
> AC DC - Big Gun
youtube.com/watch?v=nLsXJitaiVo

> Doom - Deep Into the Code
youtube.com/watch?v=L5KVMnS9zgY
> Slayer - Behind the Crocked Cross
youtube.com/watch?v=qRV1Zgjmiks

> Doom 2 - Waiting For Romero To Play
youtube.com/watch?v=TnzRBZd5_uA
> Pantera - This Love
youtube.com/watch?v=tymWpEU8wpM

[Nolan Stewart]

>N's Farewell - Pokemon Black/White (2010)
Literally straight from The Love Theme and then immediately sounds like it switches to something similar to Emil's Theme from Nier.

youtube.com/watch?v=H4aRbiTMBUE

I wonder if the composer was having writers block and just happened to be playing Mother and Nier

[Wyatt Brown]

Yeah that's just shameless.

[James Gomez]

This was more popular in the 80's-90's honestly, is quite cool.
youtube.com/watch?v=22qJa6tZfXA
youtube.com/watch?v=OMD8hBsA-RI

[Joseph Brooks]

>Xenosaga - Beach of Nothingness
youtube.com/watch?v=F_2pKh5KiCk
>Nayuta no Kiseki - Astrolabe
youtube.com/watch?v=HU3jXzBwBmY

>Robert Miles - Children
youtube.com/watch?v=1SUbUTczTmI
>Music Material - Transparence
youtube.com/watch?v=TM2WB4TWqWU

>Camel - Lunar Sea (skip to 5:05)
youtube.com/watch?v=QLncD0ta2jQ?t=305
>Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade - In the Name of Bern
youtube.com/watch?v=ayJ26MKJwYk

[Asher Foster]

> Touhou 6 - Septette for the Dead Princess
youtube.com/watch?v=aJQ5HsXlPTo
> Beethoven - Sonata No. 8
youtube.com/watch?v=lJpSqC86vaw

> Super Mario Bros. - Underworld
youtube.com/watch?v=6QLWT63kKB4
> Friendship - Let's Not Talk About It
youtube.com/watch?v=TOFlsEBkPxs

[Landon Nelson]

...

[Brandon Moore]

>That mario bros. rip

Holy shit, I'm willing to bet Koji Kondo riped off every single track he composed.

youtube.com/watch?v=phQ3KMHVXUs

This is Zelda's Lullaby

[Logan Bennett]

Thanks for giving me horrible flashbacks to media studies class

[Lucas Adams]

>Chrono Trigger - Trial Music
youtube.com/watch?v=zFHUIzFxz20
>Pink Floyd - The Trial
youtube.com/watch?v=FCMHmDnfD6I

So topical it couldn't be a coincidence

Also Robo's Theme sounds a ton like the Rick Roll song
youtube.com/watch?v=cmY2wf7T428
youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

[Nolan Phillips]

actually, this is zelda's lullaby. it's about a decade older

youtube.com/watch?v=c49Trz5Rc_A
there's a tvtropes page that lists a few hundred of these video game "remixes"

[John Butler]

There's something about 60s-70s electronic music/moog stuff that I can't get enough of.

[Samuel Diaz]

bump.

[Cooper Perez]

tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/SuspiciouslySimilarSong/VideoGames

This?

Good lord.

[Christopher Cruz]

>CAN - Turtles Have Short Legs
youtube.com/watch?v=OikIgkPX2Uk

>Parappa The Rapper - Level 2
youtube.com/watch?v=qjxLM_7ElLs