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** The battle theme that Shimomura did for [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsMCQE7GKUA Superstar Saga] has a remarkably similar structure to the one she did for ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8dWYAqonus Mario RPG]''.
** Fawful's Castle Garden in ''Bowser's Inside Story'' sounds strangely similar to Ganon's theme.
* The ''[[Ninja Gaiden (Video Game)|Ninja Gaiden]]'' arcade game feature a recurring pair of sub-bosses who are obvious [[Lawyer -Friendly Cameo|pastiches]] of the legendary [[Professional Wrestling|wrestling tag team]] known as the Road Warriors. Their background theme ("I Am Man") was such an obvious ripoff of Black Sabbath's "Iron Man" (the entrance theme of the Road Warriors), that when Tecmo released the game on the Virtual Console, they had to remove the tune to avoid copyright infringement.
* In ''[[Chrono Trigger (Video Game)|Chrono Trigger]]'', "Jolly Ol' Spekkio", the theme of the shapeshifter of the same name found at the End of Time, sounds a heck of a lot like "I Just Can't Wait to be King" from ''[[The Lion King (Disney)|The Lion King]]''.
** Also, there's Ayla's Theme ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy-u0Dq32sg here]) and "It's Not Unusual" by Tom Jones ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOArsNMVqGg here]).
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** Here's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOWf_T0jdgQ Robo's theme]. Does it sound... [[Rick Astley|familiar]] to anyone? Despite the similarity, it was the first time [http://www.originalsoundversion.com/yasunori-mitsuda-finally-gets-rick-rolled/ Yasunori Mitsuda heard of the American singer].
** The music that plays during the trial early in the game is very similar to a song in [[The Wall (Music)|The Wall]] called, fittingly, The Trial.
* The Spider-Man/Venom [[Beat 'Em Up|beat-'em-up]] ''Maximum Carnage'' for the SNES and Genesis was advertised as featuring a soundtrack composed by Green Jelly (later Green Jello) - who came up with an original title tune and Suspiciously Similar Songs to metal classics for the rest of the game. Most notable as well as fitting was [http://youtube.com/watch?v=umxPSmWLRlg Black Sabbath's "The Mob Rules"] for boss fights.
* The soundtrack to ''[[Forza Motorsport]] 1'' features instrumentals to Black Sabbath's "Iron Man", ZZ Top's "La Grange" and a redone version of Edgar Winter Group's "Frankenstein", as arranged by renowned musician Junkie XL.
* In ''Daryl Gates' Police Quest: Open Season'', a Suspiciously Similar Song to "Can't Turn You Lose" by the [[Blues Brothers]] can sometimes be heard in Ragin' Records at Hollywood & Vine.
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** The music in the first part of Dr. Cossack's castle in ''4'' resembles a certain Russian folk song.
*** Cossack Castle's second theme sounds a lot like the ''[[Bionic Commando (Video Game)|Bionic Commando]]'' theme. In turn, it the second Skull Castle theme in the same game is in turn a Suspiciously Similar Song.
*** [[But Wait! There's More!|Then]], ''5'''s Skull Castle theme was suspiciously similar to ''that'' version.
** Slash Man's theme is reminiscent of "Magical Sound Shower" from ''[[Out Run]]'', as well as Quick Man's theme from MM2 and Wave Man's theme from MM5.
** A riff from Cut Man's theme from the original sounds very similar to the character select screen music from ''X-Men: Children of the Atom''.
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** The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y6R4Luysnk title theme] from Final Fantasy VI sounds like a gothic version of "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLuW-GBaJ8k Thus Spake Zarathustra]".
** And the first few bars of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSIkHrjPWTc Shadow's theme] from VI sound a lot like [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWet2qgieVc the opening theme to] ''[[The Virginian]]''.
*** Of course, Shadow's theme also sounds very similar to the theme from ''[[The Good, the Bad Andand Thethe Ugly (Film)|The Good the Bad And The Ugly]]''.
** "Johnny C. Bad" is named after Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode" but is more thematically similar to "Rock This Town" by the Stray Cats.
** The refrain of the Red Wings theme in [[FF 4]] sounds like part of the ending credits theme to the Star Wars films.
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*** "Route 10" has also been compared to "Run, My Dod, Run" from ''[[Mother 3 (Video Game)|Mother 3]]''
*** Parts of the Mistralton City theme sound very similar to the original Star Trek theme.
* In ''Stuntman'', most of the films you work on are [[Lawyer -Friendly Cameo|Lawyer Friendly Cameos]] of existing ones, complete with suspiciously familiar music that's surprisingly good in matching the mood of the original while never being identical. For example, see [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ImWAkd684mw this video of a scene from the latest Dakota Scott movie].
* The pool level in the SNES/Genesis game ''[[Cool Spot]]'' resembled, but was not quite, Fats Domino's "Walkin' to New Orleans," while the train level used a song that was just a few notes away from ''[[The Magnificent Seven]]'' theme.
* [[RobocopRoboCop (Film)|One guess]] as to what the theme of ''James Pond II: Robocod'' is suspiciously similar to. (Amazingly, the prior game did ''not'' use a knockoff of the ''[[James Bond (Film)|James Bond]]'' theme.)
* The [[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|"Meet the Engineer"]] trailer used a guitar piece suspiciously similar to a song called, oddly enough, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj85PFpHHCI "Someone Else's Song",] by the group Wilco. When the song was added to the game as main menu music nearly unaltered from the trailer, it was quickly changed out for a Suspiciously Similar Song twice.
* The theme music to online freeware game ''[[Legend of Princess]]'' is suspiciously similar to the ''Zelda'' theme because the game is a takeoff of ''Zelda''.
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* Earlier versions of ''[[Eversion]]'' used music from the obscure Famicom game ''[[Cocoron]]'' for their title screen and first world. Version 1.7, however, uses tunes that are clearly suspiciously similar to the original Cocoron music.
* The doujin game ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi|Suzumiya Haruhi no Gekitou]]'' features Konata and Akira from ''[[Lucky Star]]'' as unlockable [[Secret Character|secret characters]]. In the stage where you fight them, a [[Suspiciously Similar Song]] version of "Motteke Seifuku", the latter's [[Theme Song]], can be heard.
* One of the [[Shoot 'Em Up|shmup]] ''[[Armed Police Batrider]]'''s boss themes, "Let Ass Kick Together", has an opening riff like the main riff from [[Iron Maiden (Music)|Iron Maiden]]'s "Powerslave", just in a different key and with a couple of notes different, although the rest of the theme is different.
* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw0DsmMvu1k Heliport theme] in ''[[Double Dragon]] II: The Revenge'' sounds very similar to the [[Phil Collins]] song "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1kDmnHyOBg Easy Lover]", as well as Dire Straits' "Money For Nothing". [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQENAqNXc9s "Escape to the Forest"] sounds similar to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0qBaBb1Y-U&ob=av2e "Sussudio"], another Phil Collins song, which itself was a Jimmy Hart version of [[Prince]]'s "1999".
* "Heian Alien", the [[Bonus Boss]] theme in ''[[Touhou|Undefined Fantastic Object]]'' is suspiciously similar to "U.N. Owen Was Her?", the [[Bonus Boss]] theme from ''Embodiment of Scarlet Devil'', to the point of referring to the former as "UFOwen Was Her?"
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** Sakuya's "Flowering Night" theme from "Phantasmagoria of Flower View" sounds an awful lot like the beginning of [[Iron Maiden (Music)|Iron Maiden's]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSSHk0U9gv4#t=16s "The Trooper"].
** The first portion of Suwako's theme "Native Faith" is pretty heavily based on the final boss theme from ''[[Night Striker]]''. This isn't random; ZUN used to work at Taito, so there's a good chance that this was his version of a tribute to Mar (''Night Striker'''s composer).
* The main in-game theme of ''Transformers: Convoy no Nazo'' sounds very similar to the main theme of the Jaleco arcade/NES [[Shoot 'Em Up]] ''Argus''.
* The overworld theme in the original ''[[Wild Arms]]'' has a few bits taken from "The Ecstasy of Gold" from ''[[The Good, the Bad Andand Thethe Ugly (Film)|The Good the Bad And The Ugly]]''.
** ''Twilight Venom'' also uses ''[[The Good, the Bad Andand Thethe Ugly (Film)|The Good the Bad And The Ugly]]'''s famous five-note whistle in its theme.
** As does ''[[Boktai (Video Game)|Boktai]]'', more frequently than you could imagine them getting away with.
* ''[[Final Fantasy VIII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VIII]]'' has a track called "The Landing" that plays when your team lands in Dollet to fight the Galbadian army. In the demo version of the game, the track was an altered version of the main theme from [[The Rock]]. Apparently, it wasn't altered enough, as the track was changed for the actual game. Apparently, someone involved with the movie complained.
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* In ''[[Raiden]]'', the main riff of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvkt3H2EjBg "Rough and Tumble"] resembles [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFKtYCcMWT4 "Skull Castle Part 1"] from ''[[Mega Man 2 (Video Game)|Mega Man 2]]''.
** The refrain of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omnzHpVh1Kc Flap Towards Hope] from ''Raiden II'' sounds similar to that of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9D-LXjKVe8 Remlia Castle] from ''[[Astyanax]]''.
*** Which in turn somewhat resembles [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn_HvIUwxN4 Megagon]'s [[Theme Music Power -Up]] from ''Amagon''.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxJIlYuS4T4 Can't Retrace] from ''Raiden IV'' sounds like [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDr0oy2Tnr8 Act 1 Boss] from ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog|Sonic & Knuckles]]''.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_1e5nyb1k8 Lightning War] from ''Raiden I'' takes riffs from two [[Toaplan]] shmup game songs: the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXJNFqREeMc Level 2 music] from ''Flying Shark / Sky Shark'' and the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjuWpzKt5QQ Level 1 music] from ''Truxton/Tatsujin''.
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** The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHlhcqctS9Y Volcanic Rim stage theme] from ''[[Street Fighter IV (Video Game)|Street Fighter IV]]'', arguably the game's best piece of music, has pieces seemingly borrowed from [[Professional Wrestling|pro wrestler]] Masato Tanaka's theme song "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTGjQ4SunEM Dangan]", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYdSLaVu9p4 Spark Mandirll's stage theme] from ''[[Mega Man X (Video Game)|Mega Man X]]'', and Little Mac's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68tfAq8oFts knocked-down] theme from ''[[Punch Out (Video Game)|Punch Out]]!!'' It's basically a Suspiciously Composite Song at this point.
* While lots of the music in ''[[Red Dead Redemption]]'' is original music [[In the Style Of]] [[Ennio Morricone]], some of it edges just a little bit closer to this:
** The little riffs that play as you wonder around in New Austin contain a melody that [[The Joy of X|for a few notes more]] would be the theme of ''[[The Good, the Bad Andand Thethe Ugly (Film)|The Good the Bad And The Ugly]]'' played on an electric guitar. There's also a slow rhythmic guitar and English horn piece which is obviously reminiscent of the repeated "Per Un Pugno Di Dollari" cue from ''[[A Fistfulof Dollars]]'', but slowed down and without the key changes, and a harmonica riff reminiscent of the "Man With A Harmonica" theme from ''[[Once Upon a Time In The West]]''.
** The bounty hunting, raiding a hideout and ambient battle music in New Austin is basically "L'Inseguimento" from ''[[A Fistfulof Dollars]]'' in a swung time signature.
** The harmonica piece occasionally played by harmonica-playing [[NPC|NPCs]] is very, very similar to the "Marcetta" melody from ''[[The Good, the Bad Andand Thethe Ugly (Film)|The Good the Bad And The Ugly]]'' (the one that plays when Tuco and Blondie are being led into the prison camp).
** There's an ocarina playing the coyote-call from ''[[The Good, the Bad Andand Thethe Ugly (Film)|The Good the Bad And The Ugly]]'' amongst the ambient riffs in Mexico, although with a couple of notes added on the end, or with slightly different articulation. Sometimes it's even followed up with a harmonica playing a 'waa waa waa' reply, with the same pitches in a different order. The battle music while attacking banditos in Mexico also contains the [[Leitmotif|screaming voices associated with Tuco]] in the same film.
* The PS2 remake of Sega's ''[[Fist of the North Star (Manga)|Hokuto no Ken]]'' side-scroller for the Master System features a soundtrack consisting of vaguely similar renditions of the incidental music from the anime.
* By the admission of the composer, "Ode To The Bridge Builder" from ''[[World of Goo (Video Game)|World of Goo]]'' is a JHV of "Amazing Grace" [[In the Style Of]] [[Ennio Morricone]]'s [[Spaghetti Western]] scores.
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** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTP7Fkp2xAc "Broken My Heart"] is a JHV of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc1uIBfSCM4 "Remember Me" by Leslie Parrish].
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUDCHLksvPI "The Cube"] by DJ Suwami is this to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dopneKcyNXU "Stepping Out"] by Joe Jackson.
* Some parts of the ''[[Fallout New Vegas]]'' soundtrack sound suspiciously like the main theme to ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni]]'', with [[One -Woman Wail]] replaced by violins.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJVr0vJK2rs Crazy Train] by Ozzy Osbourne, and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NRVWtw29Yg Amiga-ish] from ''[[San Francisco Rush|Rush 2: Extreme Racing USA]]''. The latter is also used in a level with alot of (subway) trains.
** "Blue Fog" from the first game sounds similar to "Green Onions" by Booker T. and the MG's. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yin4uIcnRzg "STL"] sounds like the main riff of The Just Brother's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Nohjhe8C2w "Sliced Tomatoes"].
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