Remember When The Composer of the DBZ Games Plagiarized The Entire Soundtrack Lmao?

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Japanese composers ripped off Western music a ton back in the day
My boy Yuzo Koshiro was "inspired" by quite a few songs for those Streets of Rage OSTs filled with bangers
Usually it was just part of the song though and like not the whole thing so it wasn't as totally obvious as that Dragon Ball shyt which was flat stealing with Dragon Ball Z Kai with very little effort to make it sound different



Also different composer but the the beginning of Ken's theme from Street Fighter II is an extremely clear rip off of Mighty Wings by Cheap Trick from the Top Gun OST

Bruh This never hit me until this was just played wow. It's crazy and makes sense why I like so many of these songs and love so much of streets of rage. Idk how i didn't recognize. My mind i s actually blown.
 

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But yeah over all games use to use or "borrow" a lot of actual music. I mean it was a time when sampling was lenient and games were for kids and didn't make a ton of money so no one cares.
Kind of how a lot of songs also use to sample games and no one cared.


Now gaming is too popular and it's too much money to made.
 
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Japanese composers ripped off Western music a ton back in the day
My boy Yuzo Koshiro was "inspired" by quite a few songs for those Streets of Rage OSTs filled with bangers
Usually it was just part of the song though and like not the whole thing so it wasn't as totally obvious as that Dragon Ball shyt which was flat stealing with Dragon Ball Z Kai with very little effort to make it sound different



Also different composer but the the beginning of Ken's theme from Street Fighter II is an extremely clear rip off of Mighty Wings by Cheap Trick from the Top Gun OST

you ruined my child hood you son of a bytch!!!!
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I thought that was Tenkaichi 3, and the reason why we never got a HD remaster.
 

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Art is imitation, my favorite producer Pharrell is a serial interpolator and no one has ever batted an eye because of sample culture(even though interpolation is an entirely different thing).

I don't see anything wrong with it, even innovation doesn't stem from originality if you have the capacity to think in an abstract way like that.
 

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Japanese composers ripped off Western music a ton back in the day
My boy Yuzo Koshiro was "inspired" by quite a few songs for those Streets of Rage OSTs filled with bangers
Usually it was just part of the song though and like not the whole thing so it wasn't as totally obvious as that Dragon Ball shyt which was flat stealing with Dragon Ball Z Kai with very little effort to make it sound different



Also different composer but the the beginning of Ken's theme from Street Fighter II is an extremely clear rip off of Mighty Wings by Cheap Trick from the Top Gun OST

Damn, SOR1 is my fav video game soundtrack and half is basically "inspired" by Black Box :dwillhuh:
 

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Art is imitation, my favorite producer Pharrell is a serial interpolator and no one has ever batted an eye because of sample culture(even though interpolation is an entirely different thing).

I don't see anything wrong with it, even innovation doesn't stem from originality if you have the capacity to think in an abstract way like that.

There’s inspiration and blatant jacking. Everything in here is basically Oat Loops to the original’s Cheerios.
 

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There’s inspiration and blatant jacking. Everything in here is basically Oat Loops to the original’s Cheerios.
interpolation don't mean inspiration, what you're saying is exactly what it means. I'm aware of the difference, my original point still stands
 

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Slightly related I was listening to some Japanese music once and I'm like "Damn this song sounds SO much like something else I listened to before" and lo and behold:





There's even a mashup of the songs online.
:wow:
 
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