I know Asuka, and this wasn't intentional.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1FISrkTstA&t=18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8CFO_Hk638&t=4
@tombo#8925 I prefer the CD-ROM version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Deqzy_tifRU
@KennyL thank you for posting this! I totally lost this thread.
This threadās so good.
āTrialā from Ace Attorney has a cue that comes straight outta Thousand Knives.
if you just speed up the melody it's not plagiarism
@KennyL If Chemical Plant was really inspired by a single bar of Prince's music, then kudos to all parties
i knew i recognized the B part of this Schumann songā¦Suikoden ripped it off!!
https://youtu.be/0zA6bJsDfvM?t=55
https://youtu.be/RFQqXxe9dqk?t=54
i linked the vids to start at the relevant parts. the songs are in different keys but the melody is essentially the same. according to Wikipedia Miki Higashino is "one of only a small handful of game composers capable of scoring a full orchestra" so ya gotta believe she was aware of this tune and it was done on purpose
āPlagiarismā is a strong word, but this track (āOmoideā from Suigetsu: Mayoigokoro) I discovered as part of a DC music compilation starts out a heck of a lot like āIn My Lifeā by The Beatles:
https://youtu.be/KCb5cgnHsQ8?t=8150
this thread rules but makes me really question what is plagiarism, whatās homage, and whatās all in between that which like NOT THAT THATāS BEEN A DISCUSSION FOR DECADES, especially with the onset of hip-hop/sample-based music and differing cultural norms on what does or doesnāt fly as far as using motifs heard elsewhere. (obviously there's a huge difference between just note for note dropping a song into your game, and doing some pastiche-y reference like the āenglandā background tune in nes super dodge ball). capitalism and intellectual property laws sure gummed up the works of the exchange of artistic ideas huh??
either way, love this stuff haha
@KennyL this guy is a GOLDMINE of this stuff, dig thru his archives like a year or so ago, there's like dozens of similar tiktoks like this (and a bunch going the other way, this one maybe being my fav)
https://youtu.be/h7yDXSq18mY
https://youtu.be/gComoXZXnR8
This one is different enough itās definitely not plagiarism, but thereās a certain similarity in there
Yu Suzukiās weird Apple Arcade game has the funniest soundtrack of all time. Itās like all songs that sound like bits and pieces of Queen tracks. Incredibly goofy move.
https://youtu.be/bn_eTMEWnC8?list=PLWcM3MYbO6zeSiE1MZKj52g4GVgrHjiNu
Also kind of an odd instance of self-plagiarism. Toby Fox put a bit of one of his earlier songs into his work on Pokemon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSUdTV5x0X0
The bit in question is from a song off of "The Baby is You," Toby's rock opera album about homestuck mpreg.
https://youtu.be/U_wZwKgx3Hk?t=36
https://youtu.be/qI3gMQTMu0Q
choro q has a lot of this, very blatantly:
https://youtu.be/fPD4msFOqvE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V_91wZlUAs
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRssGOLIGRY
https://youtu.be/p6WXADtXA90
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https://youtu.be/StSA4dUh90s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XI2AsS8GkA
(the person who noticed this last one uploaded the midi to youtube because they noticed the similarity, which is kinda neat)
i suppose with racing hero and ridge racer, you could argue it's an homage (as choro q games are also racing games), but the random midi makes me less certain that was the composer's intention...
(choro q still has lots of [great](https://youtu.be/4dmhtI_g774) original (to my knowledge) music, at least!)
Hereās a fun one cause itās the inverse of most of the posts in this thread:
Pretty sure that [Mac Demarco](https://youtu.be/i1_QP8kMmj0?t=205) Lifted _Wind Scene_ by Yasunori Mitsuda from _Chrono Trigger
https://youtu.be/DY5vmx0YvgE
Kerokero Village from Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure seems to borrow a couple motives from Totoās Africa. Iāve time-stamped the most noticeable example, but some more subtle ones are scattered all throughout.
https://youtu.be/MG55VQhRnqQ?t=90
https://youtu.be/FTQbiNvZqaY
am I making this up or is this real
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEtwA-iwoCQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-d1pPzACR0
Not exactly plagarism since Parodius music is mostly based on classical music but hereās one based on Thatās The Way (I Like It) by KC & The Sunshine Band.
https://youtu.be/IJ4eUvNHOQE