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Post by phediuk on Mar 3, 2021 13:08:24 GMT -5
Donkey Kong > Congo Bongo
Ikegami Tsushinki partnered with Nintendo to make Donkey Kong, then got into a legal spat with them, (which IT won, hence why Nintendo doesn't own the arcade version of DK), prompting IT to team up with Sega and make a game that's pretty much isometric Donkey Kong. Thank you to Jeremy Parish for making me aware of this connection.
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Post by phediuk on Mar 11, 2021 10:30:21 GMT -5
Left 4 Dead > Back 4 Blood
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Post by phediuk on Oct 28, 2021 16:52:11 GMT -5
Another one:
Pieces > Jigsaw Party
Pieces being Nippon Ichi's debut game, a jigsaw puzzler made for another publisher.
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Post by phediuk on Nov 22, 2021 14:05:51 GMT -5
Cool Boarders > Rippin' Riders Snowboarding
An unusual case, in that Rippin' Riders is actually a Cool Boarders game in Japan, but had to be renamed for the US, because Sony owns the American rights to the Cool Boarders brand.
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Post by phediuk on Jan 6, 2022 16:24:50 GMT -5
Civilization IV > Old World
Lead designer broke off from Firaxis and eventually did his own take on Civ, more or less.
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Post by phediuk on Jan 11, 2022 0:09:56 GMT -5
Final Fantasy > Fantasian
Sakaguchi has made a whole career out of these games it seems.
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Post by phediuk on Feb 17, 2022 11:37:35 GMT -5
Shin Megami Tensei > Monark
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Post by phediuk on Mar 20, 2022 18:58:04 GMT -5
Ultima Online > Legends of Aria
Same lead dev.
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Post by windfisch on Mar 21, 2022 14:52:37 GMT -5
Cool Boarders > Rippin' Riders Snowboarding An unusual case, in that Rippin' Riders is actually a Cool Boarders game in Japan, but had to be renamed for the US, because Sony owns the American rights to the Cool Boarders brand. That reminds me of the Rubble Saver 1 and 2 on the Gameboy. In Japan they were both published by King Records. Outside of Japan the first game (which is actually a quasi-remake of Miracle Ropitt on the Famicom) was published by Taito under the name "The Adventures of Star Saver". The second one however, was published by Infogrames (Europe only, I think), simply titled "Max". Some game journalists at the time were even calling Max out for being a blatant Star Saver clone.
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Post by phediuk on Apr 4, 2022 1:49:49 GMT -5
Tekken > Tobal
Seiichi Ishii had also worked on Virtua Fighter before that.
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Post by phediuk on Apr 21, 2022 12:37:22 GMT -5
Portal > Quantum Conundrum
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Post by phediuk on Jun 10, 2022 3:35:10 GMT -5
Starcraft II > Stormgate
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Post by phediuk on Jul 17, 2022 4:04:53 GMT -5
X-COM > UFO: Aftermath
An unusual case, in that X-COM creator Julian Gollop was originally heading Dreamland Chronicles, its successor, but the game was canned and sold off to Altar Interactive, who retooled it into UFO: Aftermath.
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Post by phediuk on Aug 29, 2022 3:57:08 GMT -5
Hot Shots Golf > We Love Golf
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Post by phediuk on Sept 6, 2022 22:20:26 GMT -5
The recent article on Rinne provides a strange example: www.hardcoregaming101.net/rinne/Relics > Rinne Bothtec went bankrupt and handed off Rinne to Falcom, who published it, but first removed the references to Relics due to a different company owning the trademark.
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