Name-copy?

[Slugkid]

Did anybody ever notice the likeness in BoulderDash, The little game with the diamonds and stuffs with Legends? Think it Japanese...
Boulder-Rock
Dash-Dash
Rockman DASH... Boulderdash... Refractors... Little crystals...

[Chron]

Irrelevant and uninteresting.
Sometimes a spoon is just a spoon, and a name is just a name.

You could say Megaman was copying from Superman by the same logic.

[Edgecrusher]

He was. They both wear blue and fight evil.

[ChaosVortex]

You'd have better luck saying Mega Man rips off of Gundam.

[Chron]

... the only thing that relates the two are robots.
Well, that and Japanese origin.

and i guess duo maxwell and protoman and like half of the US show were voiced by the same dude but whatever

[Winged Warrior]

      'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
      Thou art thyself, though not a Rockman.
      What's rockman? it is nor hand, nor foot,
      Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
      Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
      What's in a name? that which we call a name
      By any other game would play as well;
      So Rock would, were he not Rock call'd,
      Retain that dear perfection which he owes
      Without that title. Rock, doff thy name,
      And for that name which is no part of thee
      Take all myself.

There, now this post is interesting.

[Raven]

You'd have better luck saying Mega Man rips off of Gundam.

It rips off Metroid. They both have arm cannons. And some of the bosses from MegaMan remind me of Star Wars characters.

Somebody made a page for it here. You'll have to look around for it.

[NovaMan XP]

I hope you're being sarcastic when you say it rips off of Metroid...

[Raven]

No, I'm not. Metroid came out '86. MegaMan came out '89. Just stating the facts.

[ChaosVortex]

Guys. Sonic ripped off of Mario.

They both ran real fast, their first stages were both in green plain-like areas, they jumped over pits of death, and they held their hands out and jumped off-screen whenever they died.

[Kamon]

No, I'm not. Metroid came out '86. MegaMan came out '89. Just stating the facts.

Metroid - 1986

Rockman - 1987

Besides the arm cannon, there are no similarities. Hell, you could say Super Metroid ripped off Megaman by giving Samus a charge shot.

[Raven]

True, but some bosses still look like Star Wars characters...

[Kamon]

Vile comes to mind, but that's about it.

[preventerWIND]

I remember Inafune saying something about the origins of Vile and Zero, Vile was based off of a character from Mad Maxx, and Zero was based off of someone from the Strider series.

But the helmet is a total rip off of the Fett man.

[Xearez]

I dont think megaman is a ripoff of anything(except vile he looks like boba fett).

[Xero]

MEGAMANZ IS A CLUNE OF SMAUS!1!1 LOLOLOLOL!~1!1oneoneoneshift+1eleven.

[NovaMan XP]

MegaMan is obviously a clone of Samus. They have the same attacks.

Also Kirby.

[Dopefish]

I find this rather amusing.

With this logic you could say that all of the NES games with princesses in them are ripping off Zelda. Just because something is similar, does not mean its ripping off something else.

Sure game companies may borrow certain aspects of a game, but unless the game is a outright CLONE its not a rip-off.

Unless your Micro$oft giving the new IE7 tabbed browsing and making it look like Firefox.

That my friend; is ripping.  

*Cough*

Back on topic. Lets face it, as much as I love my NES, games during the NES era were all pretty similar...Lets look today, are the newer Megaman and Metroid games really that much similar NOW? Not at all.


 

[preventerWIND]

They can both run, they can both shoot, good 'nuff for me.

They're all cloooones!!

[NovaMan XP]

Any game is a clone of the first game ever made.

Therefore, video games should end. They're all a bunch of ripoffs.

[preventerWIND]

*points at Nova*

PROTOMAN RE-COLOR!

[NovaMan XP]

*suicide*

[Dopefish]

Stop making video games? If that happened, life would cease to exist in Japan.

Of course that might stop people from dying of obesity...Nevermind, Chuck Norris would just fill in the gaps.

[Mikero]

I find this rather amusing.

With this logic you could say that all of the NES games with princesses in them are ripping off Zelda. Just because something is similar, does not mean its ripping off something else.

Sure game companies may borrow certain aspects of a game, but unless the game is a outright CLONE its not a rip-off.

Unless your Micro$oft giving the new IE7 tabbed browsing and making it look like Firefox.

That my friend; is ripping. 

*Cough*

Back on topic. Lets face it, as much as I love my NES, games during the NES era were all pretty similar...Lets look today, are the newer Megaman and Metroid games really that much similar NOW? Not at all.

Seriously, invest in a joke-detector. They sell them at K-Mart. K-MART FOR GOD SAKES! There's nothing cheaper. Break a dollar.

I dont think megaman is a ripoff of anything(except vile he looks like boba fett).

That's what preventerWIND JUST said.

[KPL]

You've got to admit, for someone who doesn't know his Star Wars, the Fett Man is pretty confusing.

And I am a Fett Fan, so I guess i'm being relatively nice to the guy for not noticing the obvious.

[ASR]

Seriously, invest in a joke-detector. They sell them at K-Mart. K-MART FOR GOD SAKES! There's nothing cheaper. Break a dollar.

Twenty bucks says doesn't catch on, and runs out to try to buy one.

[preventerWIND]

Seriously, invest in a joke-detector. They sell them at K-Mart. K-MART FOR GOD SAKES! There's nothing cheaper. Break a dollar.

You call 80$ cheap!? Yeah right, I can only imagine your definition of expensive.

Seriously people, post more, this is how bored I am.

[Dopefish]

Meh....There is no Kmart where I live, besides talking lightbulbs creep me out.

Aside from some color differences, Fett does look like Vile. But Howie Long looks like Duke Nukem too, and I don't think that anything was copied there.

[orclev]

Ew, isn't there a better Joke Detector than that?  That one only has two stars out of five... 

[Mikero]

You call 80$ cheap!? Yeah right, I can only imagine your definition of expensive.

That one is more expensive than the K-Mart's one. LCD screen and all that. The K-Model is analog...


... Yeah. Analog. Really.

[Xearez]

$80 making $20 is a hard for me!

[Mikero]

Get a job, then.

[Dopefish]

$80 making $20 is a hard for me!

Aye, I know how that feels....10$ or 20$ is alot of money if your still in school like me.

I get most of my money by selling stuff on Amazon and doing online surveys.

[Mikero]

It's never really going to stop being a lot money exactly.