Kung Fu Heroes with Mario sound effects

[vnisanian2001]

It is very much a common thing for developers to recycle sound effects and music styles, to name a few, from other games that they've made. But why did Kung Fu Heroes on the NES, developed by Nihon Game, have sound effects from SMB1?

[psygnosis8]

It happens. Hudson used the super Mario bros. Pause sound in Lode Runner for the Famicom/nes. Abadox uses the konami pause tone.

There’s a “footstep” sound used in many nes games. Castlevania uses it during the map scenes where Simon walks across the screen. It’s also the jump sound in Rygar, and I believe Bomberman uses it too.