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* The ''[[Quest for Glory]]'' series was originally going to be named ''Hero's Quest'', but Sierra On-Line had to change the name to avoid potential copyright issues with the makers of the tabletop game ''Hero Quest''.
* The mission "Hollywood and Vain" in the ''Yuri's Revenge'' expansion pack for ''[[Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2]]'' featured parodies of iconic Hollywood action heroes, namely "[[Arnold Schwarzenegger|Arnnie Frankenfurter]]", "[[Sylvester Stallone|Sammy Stallion]]" and "[[Clint Eastwood|Flint Westwood]]", as controllable infantry units complete with (campy) voice impressions of the respective actors. While EA and/or Westwood could have easily cited Fair Use per ''Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.'' which set precedent for commercial parodies of existing works or people, they instead played it safe and disabled the actors' voices in patch 1.001, replacing them instead with a generic GI voice set. Patching the game to [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTgtrOdMe40 restore] the excised voices is trivial though.
* Ditto with ''[[The Revenge of Shinobi]]'', which has seen [https://tcrf.net/The_Revenge_of_Shinobi_(Genesis) five revisions] due to copyright concerns (as Japan at the time had somewhat lax copyright laws). Like ''Yuri's Revenge'' above, ''Shinobi'' had cameos from a number of pop culture icons, namely Rambo, the Terminator, Spider-Man and Godzilla, as well as that of actor Sonny Chiba. Spider-Man was made official in REV02 when Sega obtained the video game rights to the superhero franchise, though Spidey had to be recoloured to a pink spandex in the Virtual Console release.
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