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== Video Games ==
* A large percentage of [[Shovelware]] is made of these.
* Many video games made for early pre-assembled desktop computers (starting with Apple ][, Tandy/Radio Shack TRS-80, Commodore PET in 1977) were poor-quality imitations of coin-op arcade games. The underlying hardware was simply not capable of anything better. The names of the knockoffs differed from the arcade originals, but Warner (which owned Atari) was infamous for repeated attempts to sue over copying the "look and feel" of individual games... even though Atari's own model 2600 [[Home Game|home consoles]] were [[Consolation Prize|as bad or worse]].
** Once home PC's had improved sound and colour graphics, the days of Atari's consoles as a cash cow for Warner came to a very abrupt end. Many landed in the Almagordo NM landfill.
* Many unlicensed/bootleg NES games, especially by Thin Chen Enterprise (often sold under the Sachen brand name), are shoddy imitations of licensed ones, eg ''Silent Assault'' : ''[[Contra]]'', ''Rocman X'' : ''[[Mega Man X]]'', ''Challenge of the Dragon'' : ''[[Double Dragon]]'', ''Jurassic Boy'' : ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'', ''Street Heroes'' : ''[[Street Fighter]] II'', ''Q-Boy'' : ''[[Kirby]]''. There are also several "pirate original" games based on movie franchises, such as ''[[Harry Potter|Harry's Legend]]'' and ''[[Titanic|Titenic]]''.
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