Top Ten Popular Video Games That Were Total Ripoffs

Ms. Pac man is a direct rip off of another Pac Man rip off... A group of kids hacked into a Pac Man arcade system and modified the game to their liking with a different map, modified sprites and called it Crazy Otto. This was before Ms. Pac Man was released. Is it a coincidence why Crazy Otto and Ms Pac Man have the same exact map?

aarond90 It's not exactly a rip off for that reason as it was made by the same company as the original Pac Man, it's a rip off for ripping off a hacked version of Pac Man with the same map. - Cazaam

It's the same thing as regular Pac-man.
Just with a different character. - aarond90

Ms pacwoman

This is probably the easiest to know what game this came from. Well, actually there's two valid answers for this:
The answers I'll take will be Candy Swipe and Bejeweled Blitz. Both of these games are about matching items in rows to remove them from the board.
Candy Swipe was copied in many ways by Candy Crush and the power up system of Candy Crush came from Bejeweled where you can match items together in ways to get power ups such as explosive pieces which obliterate everything adjacent to them for example. - Cazaam

No, when I thought the candy crush craze was over... Along came candy crush soda saga, they're making a new one NOO

Too famous ripoff and has too many levels BEJEWED CAME BEFORE

A ripoff of what? It's a third person shooter. Are other games not allowed to be third person shooters? - peashooter

Did you ever here of Happy Wars? - RalphBob

Halo sucks, they keep stealing ideas from Animal Crossing and Skyrim

Play the multiplayer and you'll understand why it's here - htoutlaws2012

The whole series is a ripoff of Doom

Modern Spacefare - xandermartin98

Let's just take Scrabble and move the bonus squares around and change some of the point values of the letters... Real original. - Cazaam

Is a rip off of another game known as GuitarFreaks. released by Konami in 1999. The gameplay was exactly the same as Guitar Hero: Players pressed plastic buttons and strummed a large plastic flipper on a guitar-shaped controller in time with the game's music. Every so often, the player could even raise the fake guitar in the air to gain extra style points. A small meter showed how well a player was keeping up with the song; too many missed notes and it turned from green to red to "Game Over."

Sound familiar in any way? - Cazaam

Yes, you didn't misread that. Atari's Pong itself is a rip off of Magnavox's Table Tennis. It was this that made Atari such a huge entity in the video game industry in the late '70's and the early '80's. - Cazaam

A new sensation in mobile gaming happens to be a total clone of another game known as "Threes"

This is what "Threes" developer has said about this: "First, it started on iOS with a game called 1024 released 21 days after Threes (February 27th). It’s different, but not. The sliding is there, the doubling of cards, the merging, even the art is extremely similar. There are differences. New cards spawn all over the place. Swiping up, down, left or right moves the cards the full distance possible. There are “stones” in the grid that never move. This last feature was likely a choice the developer made based on the fact that the game was too easy. It's not very fun.

Next, came 2048 about ten days later. A game system identical to 1024 with one tweak, it removed the stones. Since, the game has grown in popularity after a posting on Hacker News on March 10th. It’s freely available and open source, allows swipes so it can be played on the phone and ...more - Cazaam

tf2 copy

A blatant rip off of Crazy Taxi... There's no way you can deny. - Cazaam

The Simpsons is a sitcom.
Ever thought it could be a parody.
A parody of Crazy Taxi
The Simpsons Hit and Run I suppose could be a parody of Grand Theft Auto.

It true fnaf is a rip off of another game

I don't care about this game but the reason it got so popular is because it was unique, could you please tell me what this is a ripoff of?

Please tell me why the heck is this on this list. Suee it is popular
but this is not a ripoff of any games.

This game isn't a rip off. I played it for 1,114 hours with my friends and we just beat the twins. This game is meant for multiplayer. You are supposed to be able to have fun with your best of friends. It is worth the $20 that you pay for it. In my opinion, it is better than Minecraft, because I played that and beat it in 45 hours. I think that terraria is just fun in general, and it doesn't matter what you do.

It's totally isn't ripoff. Say of what game it's ripoff?! Its came earlier, than minecraft & has diffent gameplay. I don't know why this on the list. Also its funnier than minecraft, even funnier. Terraria developers don't care about reality of the game as minecraft, it makes it funnier!

Actually Minecraft came first (Terraria was 2011, Minecraft was 2009). But yeah, I like Terraria more still. - KalloFox34

Minecraft is a complete ripoff of ROBLOX.

Clone of infiniminer but how did it got famous

Total clone of infiniminer

Rip off of infiminer

This game took mechanics from a better first person shooter called Titanfall. - Cazaam

Really? Many Game's Have a Racing Version, Even if Nintendo HAPPENED to make one.

Mi sonic can make its game Mario makes their games

This is kinda a rip off of the impossible game but it’s better so does it count?

How is this not higher... - Bammer73

Shouldve been more specific, like GHOSTS

Apparently it's a ripoff of SoulCalibur.

NOT A RIP OFF!

It's a ripoff, why? It's only for people on drugs, I mean, you get to tame animals, it's a ripoff of minecraft

Ripped off of mw2

Ripped off star wars

This garbage is a clone of Pokemon. - KalloFox34