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In 1994, Capcom sued Data East for infringing the copyright of Street Fighter 2. And asked to ban the production, marketing or sale of the game "the History of the Warriors".

Capcom believes that the characters in the History of the Warriors, whether in the way of movement, control system, operation and play, are all copies of "Street Fighter".

This shameful plagiarism is bound to lose and will be condemned by its peers in the future. But the plot just didn't follow this routine.

The result of the final trial was so surprising that CAPCOM lost the case.

Why is that?

The explanation given by the court is that although Data East uses Street bully 2 as a reference for its games, the similarities between these games will not be protected according to the principle of sc è nes à faire (that is, the definition of the type of game exists in the public domain).

After this incident, "the history of fighters" has become more familiar to more people. The word "borrowing" becomes the "amulet" of plagiarism between games.

The history of warriors also has official cartoons! Very popular)

"Street Fighter" does open the command cast, must kill the first, but it is unlikely to make similar games later can not be used ah! "the History of the Warrior" does draw lessons from many movements, and on this basis into their own ideas, looks like the style is very similar, but there are some differences.

Let's first take a look at the actual plagiarism of the History of the Warriors:

Matlock, using the sonic blade and foot knife of Street Fighter 2.

Sam Tea imitates Sagat, the moves "Tiger Wave" and "Tiger knee"

Jane's move "burst" imitates "split hand", and the instruction is also flat A. "Feihuang Blade" imitates Gu lie's foot knife (also used by Baroque).

Liu Yingmei borrowed from Chunli to a large extent, and her "Flame feet" directly used Chunli's "split feet".

But what we need to know is that the so-called crack comes from Beidou Shenquan at first. This is true for both Honda and Chunli.

Does Liu Yingmei's Fengchui look very familiar?

Yes, this move is more controversial. Because it appears to be an imitated Gu lie's foot knife, but the action doesn't look like it. And it comes out with a double-footed knife.

On the contrary, it is very similar to the foot knife of "turning into a ninja".

In addition, if we compare the foot knife of "Street Fighter 3" released in 1997, does it feel like a dime?

Saji's "critical punch" borrows from Honda's "crack hand". However, it can be seen that this is more similar to the skills of "Bruce Lee" among the world heroes.

"Flame hook" comes from Ken's "Flame Shenglong fist" by Super Street Fighter 2.

The effect of being combined:

Jin Jiafan said: employers and employees will also do this.

Guricha strength: I can play "Hong Meiling" through this move.

Kravan's moves are "air raid" and "straight line rolling attack". Obviously, these two moves are the direct transport of Blanca and Baroque. Even the attack judgment is exactly the same.

Does Li Diande's moves look very familiar?

These are all the moves of Yang and Yuan, the character in the later period of Street Fighter. Does CAPCOM borrow from it the other way around?

Of course not, because the History of the Warriors plagiarizes not only street bullies, but also the legend of hungry wolves.

So we can also think that these two moves come from Terry and Cami respectively.

Who does Mizoguchi's moves imitate?

This seems to be very obvious! Sakazaki's most classic move

Sakazaki Ryo's father's fame must be killed: Tiger, easy to catch! Even the skill slot does not need to be rubbed out directly.

In addition, let's take a look at another of his tricks: broken tigers.

Am I wrong? isn't this the way to assassinate the boxing faction in "EX"?

Long, Ken and Hao Ghost all play like this. This move is so controversial that we don't even know who comes first and who plagiarizes who!

From today's point of view, aren't these moves common in fighting games?

It has appeared in almost all games!

So here's the problem. The History of the Warriors was released in 1993, and the Dragon and Tiger fist and the Legend of the hungry Wolf had been released before that. We know that the predecessor of the King of Boxing is the Legend of the hungry Wolf and the fist of the Dragon and Tiger.

Most of the moves are based on Street Fighter, including flying props, Shenglong fist, command throw, split, whirlwind legs.

So why didn't CAPCOM sue SNK?

Here we need to know that the main developer of "Street Fighter" is from the Xishan Longzhi team, that is to say, he is the creator of the rising dragon, wave and whirlwind leg. After moving to SNK, it is perfectly reasonable for Xishanlong to add his skills to the Legend of hungry Wolf, Dragon and Tiger Boxing, Soul Service and King Boxing.

This reminds me of the controversy among the domestic authors of "Ghost blowing the Lantern". Even if they don't have copyright in their own novels, they can't even use the names of the main characters in their later novels. )

The style of "the History of the Fighter" is very similar to that of "Street Fighter 2", but here we can only say that he is responsible for this era.

After a few years, this kind of mutual learning has become commonplace, and even CAPCOM itself often borrows from some good ideas from game companies. And the characters in "Street Fighter" have realistic archetypes or anime prototypes.

It was the defeat of CAPCOM that freed the game companies that dared not blatantly plagiarize. At the same time, it also created the heyday of fighting games in the mid-1990s, when a hundred flowers really blossomed.

Of course, if we take a closer look at the games of this period, we will find that few games can break away from the shadow of street bullies, and even if they do, they will not be very popular.

In fact, the game that really plagiarized the game to the extreme is not "the history of fighters", but the "exploding man" a few years later. As long as you try it a little bit, you will find that all kinds of must-kill and instructions are too familiar.

This article comes from the official Wechat account: arcade feelings (ID:JJQH66), author: our arcade era

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