History SuspiciouslySimilarSong / VideoGames

** Igniz, [[SNKBoss one of the cheapest bastards that'll you ever face]], pulls this twice. His ''2001'' theme , [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzFIg7zmrAs Kare koso Saikyo (I'm the Strongest!)]], is a faster rock version of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OivRHzXUm2A Original Zero's theme]]. In ''2002: [[UpdatedRerelease Unlimited Match]]'', he's given a new theme called [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy16dCouwc8 Save The Universe]], which sounds like [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6cfOUgt0h4 Mildred Avalon's theme]] from ''ArcanaHeart''.

** Another ''Star Wars'' sound-alike is [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgPZfQb50JY Clipping Their Wings]], which sounds like the [[{{Leitmotif}} Death Star theme]], which itself was based on the climax of GustavHolst's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0bcRCCg01I Mars]].
* [[{{Gauntlet}} Gauntlet Legends 64]]. The chorus section (i.e. the horn part that starts at around 0:24) of the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-B-C1mN5mE theme from the Jackal's Token Room]] sounds very much like [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulWXvzL6nuA "What Do You Do with a Drunken Sailor?"]].
* The title screen music for the C64 game 'Mayhem in Monsterland' sounds a lot like the theme of Tiny Toon Adventures.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUJtyvyLmZg Campanile of Lane]] from ''VideoGame/{{Ys}} II'' and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyITEQDiJq4 Shudder]](particularly from 0:32 to 0:57 and from 1:36 to 2:00) from ''{{Einhander}}''.
** More similar to the former is [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyO279azD_g Bass's Theme]] from ''Mega Man 8''.
* [[JohannSebastianBach Bach]]'s Music/ToccataAndFugueInDMinor has had several versions for multiple games. Bloody Tears from Castlevania 2 and the Final Boss theme from ''MegaManLegends 1'' come to mind first. Also, the soundtrack to Konami's ''{{Gyruss}}'' uses the toccata movement ad verbatim. The boss theme in the unlicensed game ''Castle of Deceit'' is a note-for-note replication of the fugue movement.
* The HokutoNoKen fighting game has two. The intro to Souther's stage is a slightly sped up version of "The Hellion" by Judas Priest, and Juda's stage borrows part of the melody from Kylie Minogue's "Can't Get You Out Of My Head."
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erv30TbyOFU&feature=related Coccus]] from ''Chaos Field'' is a JHV of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZpkhpfecwg Stella]] by Jam & Spoon.
* In ''{{Gradius}} V'', [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THEYfku15Ec "Something Green"]] sounds similar to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFIdNr1PGCM "Way Out ->"]] by {{Orbital}}. In turn, the synthesizer arpeggio in Orbital's "Spare Parts Express" sounds like the ''Gradius 1'' boss theme.
* The music in ''Lockjaw: The Overdose'', a freeware ''VideoGame/{{Tetris}}'' clone for GBA, is an [[WordOfGod admitted]] JHV of "I Don't Like the Drugs" by MarilynManson. But at times it sounds closer to the rock remix of "It's All About the Benjamins" by the {{Glam Rap}}per formerly known as Puff Daddy to point out the similarity between those two songs.
* The music of the cursed RPG of ''NanashiNoGame'' sounds very similar to that of classic ''DragonQuest''. It's just a bit... off.
* MapleStory has at least one, possibly more. ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJO4ctKnPWA Battlefield]]'', the song that plays in the Showa town Yakuza hideout is a JHV of ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsvwYU9K504 Battle Without Honor Or Humanity ]]'' from ''Kill Bill''. ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzk_53CNL9U Bigfoot]]'' also sounds like a JHV of Kevin Schilder's music from {{Heretic}} and {{Hexen}} though it does not seem to copy any specific song from either one, merely the style.
** The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIDtgIxBfnU field theme from the Mu Lung region]] has a sped up copy of the opening flute of Peter Gabriel's ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1tTN-b5KHg Sledgehammer]]'' and one repeating section sounds copied form Queen's ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO6D_BAuYCI Crazy Little Thing Called Love]]''
*** Curiously enough, the Sledgehammer flute is also a StockSoundEffect-- it was a standard patch in the E-mu Emulator synthesizer.
* ''Burning Fight'', an early 90s SNK beat-em-up, features a bonus round song that sounds incredibly similar to "Green Onions" by Booker T. & the M.G.s.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThhtBuuiiVs The Stage 1 theme]] from ''Super Star Soldier'' has at least a passing resemblance to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJd9jiRiLJQ&feature=related Gallantry]] from ''{{Raiden}}''.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9APspFaew_M&playnext=1&list=PLA94E6ED8E1B77F9D The Wilderness]] from ''{{Valis}}: The Fantasm Soldier'', and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsgbnG7ZJ4g Horror Fortress]](Shademan's theme) from ''VideoGame/MegaMan 7''.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8h2GLL_-Qo "4 Letter Love"]] from the first ''GrandTheftAuto'' is a Jimmy Hart version of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bomv-6CJSfM "You Shook Me All Night Long"]] by [[Music/{{ACDC}} AC/DC]]. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md-rbUbmw8c "Days Like These"]] is a JHV of Richard O'Brien's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n792tVxciw4 "The Time Warp"]].
* "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_gRBR-K-nY&feature=related Survival of the Fittest]]" from ''{{Contra}}: Shattered Soldier'' sounds like [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfpgpf6QVnI "Symphony of Destruction"]] by Music/{{Megadeth}}.
* The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjIt_8p16WM&feature=related main battle music]] from ''{{Opoona}}'' is a fairly obvious riff on the StandardSnippet "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqg3l3r_DRI Sabre Dance.]]"
* ''RumbleRoses'' features a Jimmy Hart version of Van Halen's "Hot For Teacher" as Miss Spencer's entrance music.
** Which is barely a surprise seeing as the game's theme song was a cover of David Lee Roth's ''Yankee Rose''.
* ''VideoGame/EarthwormJim'' 2's "The Flyin' King" level features a melody which starts out sounding very similar to the song "Cuban Pete" by Joseph Norman and José Norman.
** The game also features a sound-alike of "El Choclo" for the "Udderly Abducted" level.
* ''{{Gex}} 3'' uses Jimmy Hart versions for several stage themes, each based around the same RecurringRiff.
** "Holy Moses": "Misirlou" (Dick Dale arrangement)
** "War Is Heck": ''HogansHeroes'' Theme
** "Cutcheese Island": "Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life for Me)"
** "My Three Goons": "Zoot Suit Riot"
* The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KltPcMIUMJU main battle theme]] from ''{{Stella Deus The Gate of Eternity}}'' resembles part of the Indiana Jones theme.
* Some of the background music for ''CommandAndConquer: Generals'', particularly for the American and GLA themes, the soundtrack takes more than a few cues from Hans Zimmerman's music from ''BlackHawkDown''.
* The developer of {{Commodore 64}} shooter ''Delta'' wanted its background music to imitate PinkFloyd's "On The Run". Composer Rob Hubbard [[WordOfGod admits]] that he not only imitated that song, but he also threw in imitations of several tracks from ''{{Koyaanisqatsi}}''.
* The Macintosh helicopter sim ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWCb8ayXNC8 Apache Strike]]'' appropriately used a JHV of the theme from ''{{Airwolf}}''.
** Also similar to the above is the first underworld theme ([[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSA71Zhlkdg 3:57 to 5:00 here]]) from ''KeithCourageInAlphaZones''.
* The ending music to ''ActRaiser'' begins with a fanfare extremely similar to the 20th Century-Fox one.
* Most games under the 2K Sports banner are loaded with these. The most obvious ones will be Gary Glitter's "Rock and Roll Part 2," AC/DC's "Highway to Hell," and The Alan Parsons Project's "Sirius."
* In the DS and Wii versions of ''AnimalCrossing'', the music that plays from 2:00 AM to 2:59 AM bears resemblance to the second movement of ''Pathetique'' by Beethoven. So is the save room music.
* The soundtrack of ''Thwaite'', a homebrew ''MissileCommand'' clone for [[NintendoEntertainmentSystem NES]], is overall a JHV of the early morning music in the ''AnimalCrossing'' games. ZigZagged in that its pastiche of the 2 AM music from ''ACWW'' includes the actual [[PublicDomainSoundtrack public-domain melody]] from ''Pathetique''.
* The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPkNYxczCUA main menu music]] of ''VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'' is sinister JHV of the song [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbe3CQamF8k&ob=av2e ''Angel'']] by MassiveAttack
* Jet Moto 2 features a track with a soundalike melody to Ludwig Van Beethoven's "Symphony No. 6 (Movement 3)".
* The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsAtKr3zNtg Asteroid Field]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2F79WVi328&feature=related Sector X/Z]] themes from ''VideoGame/StarFox'' resemble [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38V4YPbF-Dk "TIE Fighter Attack"]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j0SFbNCEXM "X-Wings Draw Fire"]](2:48), respectively, from ''StarWars: ANewHope''. The route select screen/stage clear theme sounds similar to the themes from ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'' and ''IndianaJones'', also scored by John Williams.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L2Gve7oh_4 The War Song]] from Sam & Max Season 1 is a cross between a JHV, affectionate parody and a TakeThat of Edwin Starr's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d8C4AIFgUg War]], to the point of directly using the line "War, what is it good for?"
* Plenty of songs from ''InTheGroove'' are strongly reminiscent of ''[[DanceDanceRevolution DDR]]'' songs. The first game has "Disconnected" for "[=PARANOiA=]", "I Think I Like That Sound" for "Drop Out", "Drifting Away" by Filo Bedo for "Drifting Away" by Lange, and "Pandemonium" for "Gamelan de Couple". The second has "Birdie" for "Butterfly", "Monolith" for "Healing Vision(Angelic Mix)", and "Energizer" for "MAX 300", which even incorporates a JHV of the slow part of "neoMAX", a ''fan remix'' of "MAX 300".
** In a possible TakeThat, "Fascination (Eternal Love Mix)" from ''DDR Supernova'' sounds similar to "Disconnected (Hyper Mix)".
* The in-level music that plays in Build-A-Lot 2: Town Of The Year has a section which sounds almost exactly like the level start tune from Donkey Kong.
* The main overworld theme in ''Fester's Quest'' sounds somewhat like both the Area 2 theme from ''BionicCommando'' and Heatman's theme in ''VideoGame/MegaMan2''.
* 'Vortigern's Lament' from [[ATaleOfTwoKingdoms A Tale of Two Kingdoms]] starts rather similarly to [[http://queststudios.com/2010/digital/qfg4cd/QFG4Track18.ogg the Leshy's theme]] from QuestForGloryIV, although it might have been a coincidence. [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome Not that there is any problem with it.]]
* Kirby's victory theme has a tune that souns suspiciously similar to that of the song ''The Walrus and the Carpenter'' in the film AliceInWonderland.
* "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR0UjAQIX6E Bloodlines]]" from ''CastlevaniaRondoOfBlood'' seems to rip off the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d11KJMGYau0 Level 2]] theme from ''BadDudes''.
* The title screen theme from the ''Disgaea'' games resembles John Williams' Harry Potter theme.
* The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kj5lznf9mg Stage 1]] theme from ''Gekirindan'' sounds similar to the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHVEJs9XeAM forest theme]] from ''WonderBoy III: The Dragon's Trap''.
* "Determinator" from ''InTheGroove'' is a JHV of "You Are What You Is" by Music/FrankZappa. ([[http://pineight.com/mw/index.php?title=File:YAWYI_vs_Determinator.ogg Demo]])
* "Chillin' on the Corner" from ''{{Zoop}}'' is a JHV of "Friend Like Me" from Disney's ''{{Disney/Aladdin}}''. ([[http://pineight.com/mw/index.php?title=File:STSA_Aladdin_vs._Zoop.ogg Demo]])
* The main melody (0:45 to 1:35) of the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hNI1v7z6Sg&feature=related Level 2 MIDI]] music in ''{{Descent}} 2'' is a JHV of the first part of "Mars: The Bringer of War" by GustavHolst.
* The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG1c2U4ld2Y first level]] theme in Data East's ''Vapor Trail'' sounds like a cross between [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwB9zg7Tbx8 Wasted Years]] by IronMaiden and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ln7_jciTjQ The Stranger]] by Tony [=MacAlpine=].
* ''TheIncredibleMachine 3'' has "Ragtime" which has a close resemblence of Maple Leaf Rag by Scott Joplin.
* SuperRobotWarsAlpha has a cryptic version of Getter oppening song during the Shin Getter cutscene.
** Ryusei Date's theme, "Everywhere You Go ~Burning Version~" includes a Jimmy Hart Version of Banpresto's logo leitmotif!
* Wolverine's theme in ''MarvelVersusCapcom3'' throws in a little bit of the ''PowerRangers'' theme at the beginning.
* The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNYPabe3S0A main theme]] to ''TimeCrisis 1'' and ''2'' sounds similar to the ''Film/{{Speed}}'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVJD-Thkjv4 theme]]. In turn, part of the mostly-original theme to ''3'' is a JHV of the first theme.
* The athletic theme in ''Adventures of Rad Gravity'' is similar to that of ''AlexKidd in Miracle World''.
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* Even weirder, some stages in ''SuperMarioLand'' used a Suspiciously Similar Songs ''the original VideoGame/SuperMarioBros theme.''

* By the admission of the composer, "Ode To The Bridge Builder" from ''WorldOfGoo'' is a JHV of "Amazing Grace" InTheStyleOf EnnioMorricone's SpaghettiWestern scores.

** The ''MarioParty'' series, particularly games composed close to one another, are prone to having JHVs of each other. Compare, for example, ''Mario Party 1''[='s=] soundtrack with ''Mario Party 2''[='s=].

** "Town Mission 4" from ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'' bares some similarities to Flash Man's stage music in ''Game/MegaMan 2'', which was noted by Pokecapn and company in [[LetsPlay/SonicTheHedgehog2006 their Let's Play of the PS3 version]].

*** The similar-sounding riffs in both songs also sound like a half-tempo version of a part of Guts Man's theme from the original ''Game/MegaMan''.

* In ''Game/MegaMan'', the music in Elec Man's stage is pretty similar to "All the Right Friends" by REM.

** The Intro Stage Underground music in ''VideoGame/MegaMan 8'' is reminiscent of the ''SuperMarioBros'' underworld music, and the main boss music resembles the boss theme from ''SuperMarioBros3''.
* The Stage 5 theme from ''Blaster Master'' is suspiciously similar to Bomb Man's theme from ''Game/MegaMan 1'', and one of the guys at Overclocked Remix did [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeWhIatbXWM a mash-up remix]] of the two.

* 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 ''Game/MegaMan 2''.

** The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHlhcqctS9Y Volcanic Rim stage theme]] from ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV'', arguably the game's best piece of music, has pieces seemingly borrowed from [[ProfessionalWrestling 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 ''MegaManX'', and Little Mac's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68tfAq8oFts knocked-down]] theme from ''[[{{ptitle1s18qpgt}} Punch-Out!!]]''. It's basically a Suspiciously Composite Song at this point.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCkQAyS4_gI The theme for Levels 7 through 9]] in the SNES version of ''PrinceOfPersia'' resembles [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEAzwDqCxvw Gemini Man's theme]] from ''Game/MegaMan 3'', as well as "Arabian Nights" from ''{{Disney/Aladdin}}''.

* [[JohannSebastianBach Bach]]'s Music/ToccataAndFugueInDMinor has had several versions for multiple games. Bloody Tears from Castlevania 2 and the Final Boss theme from MegaMan Legends 1 come to mind first. Also, the soundtrack to Konami's ''{{Gyruss}}'' uses the toccata movement ad verbatim. The boss theme in the unlicensed game ''Castle of Deceit'' is a note-for-note replication of the fugue movement.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9APspFaew_M&playnext=1&list=PLA94E6ED8E1B77F9D The Wilderness]] from ''{{Valis}}: The Fantasm Soldier'', and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsgbnG7ZJ4g Horror Fortress]](Shademan's theme) from ''MegaMan 7''.

* The main overworld theme in ''Fester's Quest'' sounds somewhat like both the Area 2 theme from ''BionicCommando'' and Heatman's theme in ''MegaMan2''.

** The wild Pokémon battle theme from ''VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl'' sounds a lot like the battle theme from ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver''.

** The Dusknoir battle theme is suspiciously similar to the PsychoStrings.

** The looping part of ''Black'' and ''White'''s trainer theme sounds remarkably similar to the trainer battle theme from the original Red and Blue, while the prelude evokes the main theme of the series.

* The title theme from ''DonkeyKongCountry 2'' sounds a lot like the theme from ''{{Hook}}''. Other songs in this game that play this trope straight:

** [[BigBad Bowser's]] two themes from his boss battles in the first ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'' game are actually Suspiciously Similar Songs to "Imperial March" and "Duel of the Fates" (especially their harmonies) from the ''StarWars'' films, respectively (possibly because they match his [[GalacticConqueror desire to control the universe]]). His two themes from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2'' are actually Suspiciously Similar Songs to "Across the Stars" (possibly because of his obsession with Peach), also from ''StarWars'' and "CarminaBurana" (again especially its harmony), respectively.

** The OminousLatinChanting in the cutscene [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S115prt7QJE&feature=BFa&list=PL1774A77B982FD38C&index=20 where the Ark is revived and Galba Roa destroys the fleet]] remarkably resembles [[CarminaBurana "O Fortuna"]].

** As does ''{{Boktai}}'', more frequently than you could imagine them getting away with.
* ''FinalFantasyVIII'' 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 TheRock. Apparently, it wasn't altered enough, as the track was changed for the actual game. Apparently, someone involved with the movie complained.

* The first boss' theme in ''ConkersBadFurDay'' (a [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot robotic hay sheaf]]) sounds very close to the {{Terminator}}'s theme.

** Scrap Brain Zone is suspiciously similar to the ''BladeRunner'' ending theme(twice as fast) complete with the drum hits. The latter half also sounds like {{Kraftwerk}}'s "Spacelab", and the bassline resembles that of another KW song, "Metropolis" (not Metropolis Zone).

** The main RecurringRiff in the original ''Metal Gear Solid''(ambience, alert music, boss music, etc.) resembles {{Kraftwerk}}'s "Radio-Activity", especially with that synthesized choir.

* In ''Dr Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine'', the music in Stages 9-12 is an obvious ripoff of {{Kraftwerk}}'s "Home Computer".

* VideoGame/DukeNukem3D The Atomic Edition's [=E4M1=] theme, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zcnHNV1aXw Missing Impossible!]] is an obvious and brilliant JHV of the MissionImpossible [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWGeRgFa-hI theme song.]]

** Godhand also has a Jimmy Hart version of the {{Mazinger Z}} theme song with new lyrics as its ending credits song.

** The Spaceport Alpha theme from ''Diddy Kong Racing'' is pretty much a Jimmy Hart version of the Thunderbirds theme.
* ''Guitar Superstar'' is a plug-'n'-play unit that's a complete and utter knockoff of ''GuitarHero'', complete with songs that are not only bad MIDI renditions, but [[TheJimmyHartVersion Jimmy Hart Versions]] at that. Just to give an idea, one of the songs is called "Granite Man", which is somewhat reminiscent of "Iron Man". [[http://youtube.com/watch?v=tkF7vErum1w Watch this video just to see how awful it is.]]

* Parts of the ''{{Doom}}'' and ''Doom II'' soundtracks were Jimmy Hart versions of metal songs, but executed in such a fashion that few people really noticed. See [[http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Doom_music these]] [[http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Doom_II_music pages]] for some comparisons.
** It should be noted that the games' composer used to be a lawyer, so he knew how much plagiarism they could get away with. The story goes that the lead designer essentially gave him a set of his favourite metal albums and asked the composer to make the Doom soundtrack sound like those.
** In the case of the [=E3M8=] track, I've always thought it sounded more like [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEpFLwlcsU4 ''Sargent D and the S.O.D.'']]
*** The song that's listed next to [=E3M8=] is actually covered by a different song that never made it into the game. There's a zip file floating around somewhere of unreleased and pre-released Doom music. And yes, one of those songs sounds EXACTLY like it.
** Coincidentally, the open-source project [[http://www.nongnu.org/freedoom/ Freedoom]] contains ''Jimmy Hart versions of Doom music'', making it somewhat Meta.

** ''Doom's'' music for the second episode's second level, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HZEF6Ujsl0 "The Demons from Adrian's Pen"]], is a Jimmy Hart version of ''[[VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein}} Wolfenstein 3-D's]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLtFJJxcjk4 "Into the Dungeon"]], from the secret levels of that game's second and fifth episodes. A case of SelfPlagiarism.

* Just wanted to point out that pretty much every game id produced followed this trope at least once. ''Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure'' had a song that was "Tush" by ZZ Top to a tee. ''{{Wolfenstein 3D}}'' had a song that was a mashup of Jimmy Hart versions of classic "war" tunes. Let's face it, Bobby Prince isn't known for his originality.

** The Airship music in ''Super Mario Bros. 3'' is the Jimmy Hart Version of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NeQ1h6lzLI Mars: The Bringer Of War]] from Holtz's ''"The Planets"'' suite. The similarities are even more obvious in the orchestrated version from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy''. But then again, "Bringer of War" is a pretty appropriate theme for [[RemilitarizedZone those levels]].

* The first part of the fortress theme (before it goes into the loop) in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' is a JHV of Mussorgsky's ''Night on Bald Mountain'' mixed with the SMW main theme.

** Invisible Forest from SMV uses a JHV of Mozart's 40th symphony.
* Weirdly, the NintendoDS game based on ''FutariWaPrettyCure Max Heart'' used Jimmy Hart Versions of several themes from the anime (most noticeable is the Marble Screw music). What's weird about this is that they used the ''real'' version of the show's opening theme song. That, and the whole "same franchise as the original music" thing.
* Even weirder, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k25AtvtaqX0 some stages]] in ''SuperMarioLand'' used TheJimmyHartVersion of ''the original VideoGame/SuperMarioBros theme.''
** Not to mention Petal Meadows from ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'', though this is arguably an homage to the original.

*** Some YI levels also have a theme which is a JHV of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QserQQwOw5A Francois De Roubaix's "Benedicte"]]
*** Probably the most bizarre example in the game is the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXJKYQl0Es8 intro theme]], which is a Jimmy Hart version of, wait for it... [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5ZWzhhtlNE the Soviet Union national anthem]]!
** ''[[VideoGame/YoshisStory Yoshi's Story]]'''s castle theme is a Jimmy Hart version of "The Sugar Plum Fairy".

** Most recently, the Spin-Dig and Boulder Bowl Galaxies in ''Super Mario Galaxy 2'' start with a riff that is suspiciously similar to Michael Jackson's "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'"...
** Take a listen to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeR0E1HFHcI Challenge Glider]] from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2'', and try to say that it doesn't remind you of ''TheRealAdventuresOfJonnyQuest''.

** Also, the music for "Sky Station Galaxy","Fluffy Bluff/Cloudy Court Galaxies", and "Bowser's Galaxy Generator" are actually Jimmy Harted versions of the music for "Good Egg Galaxy", "Gusty Garden Galaxy", and "Bowser's Galaxy Reactor" (especially the last two) from the first ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'' game, respectively.
** [[BigBad Bowser's]] two themes from his boss battles in the first ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'' game are actually Jimmy Harted versions of "Imperial March" and "Duel of the Fates" (especially their harmonies) from the ''StarWars'' films, respectively (possibly because they match his [[GalacticConqueror desire to control the universe]]). His two themes from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2'' are actually Jimmy Harted versions of "Across the Stars" (possibly because of his obsession with Peach), also from ''StarWars'' and "CarminaBurana" (again especially its harmony), respectively.

** The first six notes of the original ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros'' game is actually a Jimmy Harted version of the MinskyPickup.

** Back to ''Galaxy 2'', the theme for [[{{Faceship}} Starship Mario]] is a JHV of JohannSebastianBach's "Minuet in G."

* ''Spy Hunter'' of course used the ''PeterGunn'' theme for its main music, supposedly this was licensed. Ironically, ''Super Spy Hunter'', which was not originally titled as a sequel, instead being named ''Battle Formula'' in Japan, used a Jimmy Hart version of the Peter Gunn music in its second stage.
** In another ironic twist, the ''Spy Hunter'' game also provides an aversion of this trope. The makers of the game originally wanted to use the ''JamesBond'' theme song, but couldn't obtain the rights to it. Instead of using a Jimmy Hart version, they went with the Peter Gunn theme.
* The original arcade version of Taito's ''Rainbow Islands'' uses an upbeat remix of "Over The Rainbow" (yes, the song from ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''!) as its background music. Needless to say, there were some issues with licensing the music when the game was released on home systems. Many home computer ports of the game got away with using the original tune, but the North American NES release uses a very noticeable Jimmy Hart version; the European NES release uses an entirely different tune altogether; and re-releases on more recent systems, including the recent PC re-release, are back to Jimmy Hart Versions again.

** Also, ''Parasol Stars'', the sequel to Rainbow Islands, uses the JHV of the '''Lambada''' as the boss battle music!

* The theme music to some versions of ''Pengo'' is a Jimmy Hart version of "Popcorn" by Gershon Kingsley/Hot Butter.

** "Mystic City Geo" is a noticeable Jimmy Hart version of the Mushroom Kingdom theme.
*** The Toad Town theme from ''[[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story]]'', which Shimomura also composed, is in turn a Jimmy Hart Version of Mystic City Geo (with multiple pastiches of the first nine notes of the [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome infamous]] "Beware the Forest's Mushrooms" from ''Super Mario RPG'' thrown in for good measure), to bring this full-circle.

*** The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bP5eQsDSII#t=5m22s credits sequence]] is clearly inspired by Disneyland's Electrical Parade; naturally, the background music is a Jimmy Hart Version of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax00vnsZPKE "Baroque Hoedown"]], the theme music from that parade.

* The second-level bosses in the ''NinjaGaiden'' arcade game are a LawyerFriendlyCameo of legendary ProfessionalWrestling tag team The Road Warriors, and their background music is even TheJimmyHartVersion of the Warriors' entrance theme, Black Sabbath's "Iron Man" (the game's version being titled "I Am Man").

** Even if you're not sold on those, there is at least one JHV almost undeniable: The music that plays during the trial early in the game is very similar to a song in TheWall called, fittingly, The Trial.
* The Spider-Man/Venom [[BeatEmUp beat-'em-up]] ''Maximum Carnage'' for the SNES and Genesis was advertised as featuring a soundtrack composed by Green Jelly - who came up with an original title tune and Jimmy Hart Versions of 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.
** Green Jelly is a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Jelly real (and hilarious) band]], whose current name is actually the Jimmy Hart Version of their original, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjWARsRffH8 Green Jello]]. They had to change it when Kraft sued, but the band insists that it's still pronounced "Jello".

* In ''Daryl Gates' Police Quest: Open Season'', a Jimmy Hart version of "Can't Turn You Lose" by the BluesBrothers can sometimes be heard in Ragin' Records at Hollywood & Vine.

** In ''{{Quest for Glory}} 3'', the music playing in the background at the Apothecary's store is a somewhat mediterranean Jimmy Hart version of Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit". Very suitable, given the Apothecary's profession (sells drugs...) and hippie-like demeanor.
* In ''LeisureSuitLarry 5'', "K Rap Talk" is a JHV of Thomas Dolby's "She Blinded Me With Science".(same beat, the characteristic pulsing bassline, similar synth hits). Some versions, however, use a completely different song in place of it.

* The most recent trailer for the next ''PrinceOfPersia'' game features the Jimmy Hart version of "Reqiuem for a Dream". With how often the original song is used in fan-made trailers, it's a bit of a coincidence.
* Tails' theme in ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' is a Jimmy Hart version of the Bridge Zone theme from Sonic SMS/GG, which itself is a Jimmy Hart version of the theme from ''FullHouse''.
** The day music for Mazuri in ''SonicUnleashed'' is essentially a remix of the credits music from ''Sonic 1 SMS/GG'', without the Green Hill rendition in the middle.
** ''VideoGame/{{Sonic 3|AndKnuckles}}'' used to have MichaelJackson composing its score, and most of the zone themes can still be traced into being the Jimmy Hart Versions of MJ songs. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbVM-l2Oku4 Short documentary on the subject]].

** Metropolis Zone somewhat resembles Van Halen's "Jump" and the Pointer Sisters' "Jump(For My Love)". In turn, it got Jimmy Harted by The Hives with "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shbwokU0Y_c Walk Idiot Walk]]".
** Sonic 1's Star Light Zone music is based on the J-pop song Kusuriyubi no Kesshin by Dreams Come True. In fact, the soundtrack was composed by Masato Nakamura, a member of that band.

*** For the same reason, the music from the ending cutscene of Sonic 2 is essentially a 16-bit version of their song "Sweet Sweet Sweet" (though that may not count as a Jimmy Hart version, since it's pretty much the actual song).
** Scrap Brain Zone is a Jimmy Hart version of the ''BladeRunner'' ending theme(twice as fast) complete with the drum hits. The latter half also sounds like {{Kraftwerk}}'s "Spacelab", and the bassline resembles that of another KW song, "Metropolis" (not Metropolis Zone).

** "Town Mission 4" from ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'' bares some similarities to Flash Man's stage music in ''Game/MegaMan 2'', which was noted by Pokecapn and company in their LetsPlay of the PS3 version.
*** Flash Man's stage music started out as a JHV of Metallica's "Seek and Destroy", actually

** In ''SonicTripleTrouble'', the BGM [[IncrediblyLamePun track]] for [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dot0iGpUL5I Sunset Park Zone Act 3]] is highly reminiscent of Ozzy's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOg_qF9GQUM Crazy Train]]. You'll never guess what features prominently in the act...
** Another case of the franchise Jimmy Harting itself: the music to the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpqNffL9ec4 Neo Green Hill Zone]] board in ''Sonic Pinball Party'' is a messed-up version of the tune to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zUGXqD1pm0 Neo Green Hill Zone Act 2]] in ''{{Sonic Advance|Series}}''. This is especially bizarre considering that the game's other boards (also based off of ''Advance'' levels) take the music verbatim from their models.

*** Cossack Castle's second theme sounds a lot like the ''BionicCommando'' theme. In turn, it gets Jimmy Harted into the second Skull Castle theme in the same game.
**** [[ButWaitTheresMore Then]], ''that'' version was subsequently Jimmy Harted into ''5'''s Skull Castle theme.

* The Stage 5 theme from ''Blaster Master'' is a Jimmy Hart version of Bomb Man's theme from ''Game/MegaMan 1'', and one of the guys at Overclocked Remix did [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeWhIatbXWM a mash-up remix]] of the two.

* One scene in ''{{Hamtaro}}: Ham-Ham Heartbreak'' involves finding a spoon (which later gets used in a catapult). The scene wherein you remove the spoon from its pedestal is [[ShoutOut a direct send-up]] of the "removing the Master Sword from its pedestal" scene from ''TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'', and the music that plays during the removal is a Jimmy Hart version of the "opening a large chest" music from the 3D incarnations of ''Zelda'' - where the original arpeggios go up, the Jimmy Hard arpeggios go down.

** Apparently those were real sampled Muslim chants("La illah ha il Allah", "Allah Akbar", etc), inciting many complaints from Muslim gamers and forcing Nintendo to change the music in later versions.
** Even weirder, "Saria's Song", the iconic theme music for TheLostWoods from the same game and ''Twilight Princess'' appears to be a Jimmy Hart version of... The Jupiter suite from Gustav Holst's ''The Planets.''
*** And as you may know, several pieces in ''StarWars: ANewHope'', including the opening Blockade Runner sequence, and the music right before the Death Star explodes, borrow from "Mars: The Bringer of War". The music when the rebels are approaching the Death Star also sounds similar to the Jupiter suite in parts.

** The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1EYMdLBLJE Music Box House]] theme from ''TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'' sounds a lot like the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWlPKQ_QdsY Merry-Go-Round]] theme from ''Super Mario 64''.

** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=621Kte_is6w&feature=related Dark Mountain]] from ''LTTP'' is a JHV of the Imperial March from ''TheEmpireStrikesBack''.

** The ''OcarinaOfTime'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tf7gu6hKkc title theme]] is a Jimmy Hart version of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-Xm7s9eGxU "Gymnopedie No. 1"]] by Erik Satie.

*** Apparently, the copyright concerns over numerous similarities to various [[TheBeatles Beatles]] songs is preventing ''{{Earthbound}}'' from getting a rerelease on the Virtual Console.
*** That is mostly speculation though, since there are similar cases (not Beatles though) already out on the VC.
* ''{{Dragonball Z}} Budokai'' had a few pieces of background music which were rather obvious Jimmy Hart versions of Stratovarius music, as seen [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCoiG7unOvY here.]]

* ''ABoyAndHisBlob'' for {{NES}} opens with Jimmy Hart versions of both [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vj9YbRPu9Y the theme music and the logo]] of ''RaidersOfTheLostArk''. However, this was clearly meant as either a parody or a ShoutOut.

* Bizarrely, the famous [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6UmnXlMs68 "Fever"]] theme from the various incarnations of Dr. Mario appears to be a more upbeat Jimmy Hart Version of TheBeatles' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vf26cRtG_w "Lady Madonna."]] [[http://www.gonintendo.com/viewstory.php?id=88261 Here's a comparison video.]]

* Most if not all of the music in the CAVE shmup ''Dangun Feveron'' are Jimmy Hart versions of ''SaturdayNightFever'' music; for instance, 2 stage themes are more than a little similar to "Stayin' Alive" and "Night Fever".
* In ''Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim'', [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzfodAERwuU "Ernst"]] is a Jimmy Hart Version of "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foWuYIvfgKk Moon Over The Castle]]", the theme song from the Japanese versions of the ''GranTurismo'' games. There's even a fan-made mashup of the two songs.

*** In-series, it's much more so a JHV of "Boy Meets Girl" from ''[[EarthBound Earthbound]]''.

* In the WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} game "The Great Edgar Hunt", the main Studio Lot theme is basically a Jimmy Hart version of the Cartoon Show's theme tune.
** Which is funny considering how many Jimmy Hart versions of other songs the show featured.
* Depending on who you talk to, the ''Videogame/MetalGearSolid'' melody could be a shameless rip-off of the ''Speed'' theme tune or an up-beat Jimmy Hart version of "The Winter Road" by Sviridov. In each case the stylistic similarity is more obvious when looking at Gregson-Williams' orchestral version of the theme from the 2001 ''[=MGS2=]'' trailer, but the melody's present in TAPPY's original 1998 version. The group of Russian games journalists who first spotted the Sviridov similarity confronted Kojima on-camera during the development of ''Portable Ops'' and ''Guns of the Patriots'', in popular YouTube clip. Although the Norihiko Hibino is quite adamant that Sviridov has nothing to do with the tune, Konami was sufficiently disturbed by what they took as a threat of a lawsuit to put a moratorium the melody, and so it was removed from both those games and will not be used in the future. Speculation abounds as to what was changed and where (Sunny's various maths tunes sound "MGS-ish") but given that they didn't comment on the events until about six months after ''[=MGS4=]'' came out, it's unlikely the changes will be publicly revealed. Suffice to say, fans got angry and the absence of a version of the ''Videogame/MetalGearSolid'' theme in ''[=MPO=]'' and ''[=MGS4=]'' is commonly cited as a negative point in reviews of the games. Gregson Williams' countermelody from the ''[=MGS3=]'' version of the theme seems to be groomed for use of a replacement, appearing in the ''[=MGS4=]'' end credits as "Metal Gear Saga".
** Big Boss's {{Leitmotif}} is a Jimmy Hart version of the ''Metal Gear Solid'' theme, which sounds a little more tender than the actual melody due to the changing of two chords in the progression.
*** The song "Old Snake" seems to be a Jimmy Hart version of the main theme as well, slower and sadder.
** And the Metal Gear KODOQUE theme in ''MetalGearAcid'' [[spoiler: and its sequel]] was a Jimmy Hart version of the ''Metal Gear Solid'' main theme with the same chord progression but a different melody.

** The theme tune of the festive fan parody game, ''[[http://www.superfundungeonrun.com/total-klik//merrygear.html Merry Gear Solid]]'', finished with a Jimmy Hart Version of "Snake Eater" from ''{{Metal Gear Solid 3|SnakeEater}}'', called "Secret Santa".
*** Merry Gear Solid has a lot of these. The recently released Merry Gear Solid 2: Ghosts of Christmas Past is full of them, often with hilarious results. For example, [[spoiler:the Konami-ripoff logo at the beginning starts with the normal "doo doo doo, do do do" then finishes with Jingle Bells via pitch-shifting.]]

** ''Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake'' had a soundtrack hacked together from gutted, chiptuned versions of the best action movie themes of the [=80s=]. Some, like the similarity between "Advance Immediately" and the ''{{Terminator}}'' main theme, and the "Theme of Solid Snake" and the theme from ''EscapeFromNewYork'', are subtle. Other, like the relationship between "Chasing The Green Beret" and the ''MissionImpossible'' theme, are less so. Night Sight's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5fTHoG8pTI theme]] was such an obvious ripoff of [[Film/{{Halloween}} Michael Myers]]' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq6pekM6sZQ theme music]] that it was excluded from the OST album. The bonus track "Swing, Swing~ A Jam Blues" is a Jimmy Hart of Sing Sing Sing by Benny Goodman.

* The RecurringRiff in the first two ''VideoGame/WarioLand'' games is, inexplicably, an upbeat JHV of "Beautiful Dreamer".

** The Primal Dialga theme from [[PokemonMysteryDungeon ''Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky'']] is actually a Jimmy Harted version of the Bowser Jr. battle from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy''.
** The Dusknoir battle theme is actually a Jimmy Harted version of the PsychoStrings.
** Route 209 (from Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum) shares an extremely similar tune to the choruses of ElectricLightOrchestra's "Telephone Line", Music/MottTheHoople's "All the Young Dudes", and GreenDay's "21 Guns" (the latter of which was actually released after the game, however).

** The trainer battle theme from Black and White pulls a double Jimmy Harting. The looping part sounds remarkably similar to the trainer battle theme from the original Red and Blue, while the prelude evokes the main theme of the series.

* In ''Stuntman'', most of the films you work on are Jimmy Hart versions 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]]. Honestly.
* The SNES/Genesis game ''CoolSpot'' used Jimmy Hart Versions: the pool level's music 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 ''TheMagnificentSeven'' theme.
* [[RoboCop One guess]] as to what the theme of ''James Pond II: Robocod'' is TheJimmyHartVersion of. (Amazingly, the prior game did ''not'' use a knockoff of the ''JamesBond'' theme.)
* The music playing in the ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' trailer "[[AnimatedActors Meet the Sniper]]" begins sounding like the Jimmy Hart version of the theme to MagnumForce, but as the song continues, it stops being a Jimmy Hart version and just becomes the theme to MagnumForce played with more Australian instruments.
** Valve actually did get the rights to use the music, they just modified it to fit the pacing of the video.
** The "Meet the Engineer" trailer used a guitar piece suspiciously similar to a song called, oddly enough, "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 TheJimmyHartVersion, and was then changed out a second time for ''another'' Jimmy Hart Version after the first was met with an overwhelmingly negative response (the first new version was quite blatantly [[TheyJustDidntCare thrown together for the sake of copyright-dodging]], not for the sake of having a high-quality legal version of the song).
* The theme music to online freeware game ''LegendOfPrincess'' is a Jimmy Hart Version of the Zelda theme because the game is a takeoff of ''TheLegendOfZelda''.

** Also, the credits music sounds very similar to the Star Wars theme. The version that appears on the official soundtrack makes it even more obvious: not only is it played by an orchestra, as opposed to the 8-bit style version in the game; but the track itself is called "Staff Wars: Episode I"

** Rock Howard and B. Jenet from ''[[FatalFury Garou: Mark of the Wolves]]'' have something akin to a Jimmy Hart version. There's a bridge in Rock's theme ([[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flPBoVYkyx4 Spread the Wings]]) which is taken directly from [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCbO-3hjPok Children]] by Robert Miles. As for B. Jenet, the opening to her theme ([[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKw6eX5IQAk Bad Girl]]) is based off [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvfknks-3Dg Kurikinton]], the iconic theme of series hero Terry Bogard.
** I present for your consideration, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_nXKScPrzw Wild Party...]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MLp7YNTznE remind you of anything?]]
* 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 The Jimmy Hart Version of the original Cocoron music.

* Many {{Touhou}} fans feel that "Heian Alien", the BonusBoss theme ''Undefined Fantastic Object'' is TheJimmyHartVersion of "U.N. Owen Was Her?", the BonusBoss theme from ''Embodiment of Scarlet Devil'', to the point of referring to the former as "[=UFOwen=] Was Her?"
** Others have noticed other parts of the theme as being similar to other popular boss themes ([[FridgeBrilliance fitting the bonus bosses ability of hiding her true nature]]), though the "U.N. Owen" part happens right near the beginning, and is thus most noticeable.

** Surely I'm not the only one that thinks Sakuya's "Flowering Night" theme from "Phantasmagoria of Flower View" sounds an awful lot like the beginning of [[IronMaiden Iron Maiden's]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSSHk0U9gv4#t=16s "The Trooper"]].

* The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsAtKr3zNtg Asteroid Field]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2F79WVi328&feature=related Sector X/Z]] themes from ''VideoGame/StarFox'' resemble [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38V4YPbF-Dk "TIE Fighter Attack"]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j0SFbNCEXM "X-Wings Draw Fire"]](2:48), respectively, from ''StarWars: ANewHope''. The route select screen and stage clear themes sounds similar to the theme from ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'', another film scored by John Williams.

** ''{{Sonic 3|AndKnuckles}}'' used to have MichaelJackson composing its score, and most of the zone themes can still be traced into being the Jimmy Hart Versions of MJ songs. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbVM-l2Oku4 Short documentary on the subject]].

** "Blue Fog" from the first game sounds similar to "Green Onions" by Booker T. and the MG's. Some of the other songs may be JHV's, though I can't place them.

** The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B93QQvL0CGQ Act 2 boss]] theme from ''Sonic3AndKnuckles'' resembles the first half of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omnzHpVh1Kc Stage 7's music]] from ''{{Raiden}} II''.

* In ''{{Mother 3}}'', the "Mr. Batty" enemies have theme music that sounds ''strikingly'' similar--especially in its intro--to the 1960's {{Series/Batman}} theme. You know--"Nahnahnahnahnahna nana nahnahnahnahnahna nana BATMAAAAAN!"

** The music in the Celestial Tower in Black and White sounds quite a bit like the "Secret of the Forest" track in ''ChronoTrigger''

** Let's add some {{Touhou|Project}}. The Final N battle theme has parts of "Now, until the moment you die" from Highly Responsive to Prayers about 0:47 onward.
** The opening bar of the "Farewell" track from ''PokemonBlackAndWhite'' is pretty much exactly the same as the start of ''{{Mother 3}}'''s famous "Love Theme". Other parts bear resemblance to "To Far Away Times" from ''ChronoTrigger''.
*** "Route 10" has also been compared to "Run, My Dod, Run" from ''{{Mother 3}}''

** The infamous Dr. Wily Castle - Stage 1 theme from ''Mega Man 2'' opens with nine notes that are remarkably similar to MichaelJackson's 'Beat It.' This same string of notes would go on to show up in ''{{Mother 3}}'' in the music that plays during the 'Natural Killer Cyborg' fight.

** The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHlhcqctS9Y Volcanic Rim stage theme]] from ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV'', arguably the game's best piece of music, has pieces seemingly borrowed from [[ProfessionalWrestling 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 ''MegaManX'', and Little Mac's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68tfAq8oFts knocked-down]] theme from ''[[{{ptitle1s18qpgt}} Punch-Out!!]]''. It's basically a suspicious composite at this point.

* The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHlhcqctS9Y Volcanic Rim stage theme]] from ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV'', arguably the game's best piece of music, has pieces seemingly borrowed from [[ProfessionalWrestling 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 ''MegaManX'', and Little Mac's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68tfAq8oFts knocked-down]] theme from ''[[{{ptitle1s18qpgt}} Punch-Out!!]]''. It's basically a Jimmy Hart Composite at this point.