Smells like Vigilante...

[nat]

As expected, my review hasn't appeared and likely won't.

DUDE! Post your reviews here

I know this thread hasn't generated too much interest, but I'm not the only one who would enjoy reading it .

Actually, the first day this thread started I read it and laughed SO HARD I could not bring myself to post anything. The title, the comments...

Folks nonchalantly talking about how they casually lifted sprites from Vigilante like it was no big thing. I brought up screenshots of this game and Vigilante in another tab and kept switching back and forth and it just fueled my laughter further.

And you're right, the sprites are totally rippied from Vigilante and slightly altered (at times the pallette was merely changed, at other times it looks like they created new characters in style with the old ones -- like the fatman wielding a knife).

Gold. Pure gold.

[Black Tiger]

And how is this a remake of "Kung Fu Master"?  The sprites look like they were lifted straight out of Vigilante.

Vigilante is kinda like a spiritual successor to KFM.  You have a guy that looks and dresses similar to the hero in KFM, they're both by IREM, and they're both walk-along beat-em-ups with a lot of popcorn enemies.

I like how in that one TG-16 promo video(Power Up?), they did a side by side comparison between Kung Fu NES and China Warrior (but no Genesis comparison ).

They should've used Vigilante instead of China Warrior. But I guess they didn't want to seem like the TG-16 had a similar game with only updated graphics.

[TR0N]

Looks like a clone for sure beside the rip spirtes!?

Can you say mugen 

[nodtveidt]

Can you say mugen 

MUGEN!

Ironically, at one point in time I wanted to make the character in Vigilante into a MUGEN character...never did though. Pretty much just stuck with backgrounds (anyone remember sn0ball's mugen page? that was me).

[Ninja Spirit]

TANGENT ALERT!

Since no one's mentioned it yet, Kung Fu NES/Kung Fu Master is a movie-to-game adaptation of one of Jackie Chan's earlier flicks. The USA is fully unaware of this fact because back then Jackie Chan's popularity didn't go anywhere past Asia.

(Ahhh the dreaded Jackie Chan name change scenario)

1. Kwai Tsan Tseh > Spartan X (Japanese name, in which the Arcade/Famicom game was made from, soon to KFM/KF-NES) > Wheels on Meals (USA name)

http://imdb.com/title/tt0087578/

[esteban]

TANGENT ALERT!

Since no one's mentioned it yet, Kung Fu NES/Kung Fu Master is a movie-to-game adaptation of one of Jackie Chan's earlier flicks. The USA is fully unaware of this fact because back then Jackie Chan's popularity didn't go anywhere past Asia.

(Ahhh the dreaded Jackie Chan name change scenario)

1. Kwai Tsan Tseh > Spartan X (Japanese name, in which the Arcade/Famicom game was made from, soon to KFM/KF-NES) > Wheels on Meals (USA name)

http://imdb.com/title/tt0087578/

Not a tangent! Ninja, you know I love stuff like this . Wheels on Meals, now *that* would have been a great name for the video game franchise.

[Keranu]

Indeed, Wheels on Means is a sweet name.

[Ninja Spirit]

How about this one? Remember the NES game "Phantom Fighter"?


This too is based on a movie.

Geung si sin sang > Reigen Doushi (I think, I know the Famicom version was called that) > Mr. Vampire

Phantom Fighter was also bastardized with the cut scenes being removed so the film origins weren't obvious.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0089371/

[TR0N]

TANGENT ALERT!

Since no one's mentioned it yet, Kung Fu NES/Kung Fu Master is a movie-to-game adaptation of one of Jackie Chan's earlier flicks. The USA is fully unaware of this fact because back then Jackie Chan's popularity didn't go anywhere past Asia.

(Ahhh the dreaded Jackie Chan name change scenario)

1. Kwai Tsan Tseh > Spartan X (Japanese name, in which the Arcade/Famicom game was made from, soon to KFM/KF-NES) > Wheels on Meals (USA name)

http://imdb.com/title/tt0087578/

I've know that for while.

Still i wish it was on dvd with english subtitles.

All i can find is the english dub version on vhs 

While it can be found on amazon on dvd it's, just the chinese version.

[sunteam_paul]

How about this one? Remember the NES game "Phantom Fighter"?


This too is based on a movie.

Geung si sin sang > Reigen Doushi (I think, I know the Famicom version was called that) > Mr. Vampire

Phantom Fighter was also bastardized with the cut scenes being removed so the film origins weren't obvious.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0089371/

Mr Vampire is an amazing movie.

[esteban]

How about this one? Remember the NES game "Phantom Fighter"?


This too is based on a movie.

Geung si sin sang > Reigen Doushi (I think, I know the Famicom version was called that) > Mr. Vampire

Phantom Fighter was also bastardized with the cut scenes being removed so the film origins weren't obvious.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0089371/

Not only do I remember the game, but I remember the adverts and box art for it. I would have never guessed that these games (Spartan X, PF) were movie licenses.

[MotoRoaderMike]

Another thing KFM and Vigilante have in common is that the original arcade versions for both were distributed by Data East in North America.

[MotherGunner]

Bumping this old thread since the movie/game rip-off thread.

Do we know of any other Turbo games that were ripped off besides Vigilante?

[Arkhan]

Zelda ripped off Neutopia. 

Mario ripped off Bonk

Final Fantasy ripped off Cosmic Fantasy

yeah!

lol.

[MotherGunner]

+1