Wired's Chris Kohler helps get you up to speed—on his own journalistic merits, mind you—on videogaming's early copycats. From the numerous Pong imitators to mercifully unpopular games such as Gangly Man (a painfully obvious Pac-Man clone) and Golden Axe Warrior (Sega's sorry attempt at cashing in on Golden Axe's pedigree and The Legend of Zelda's gameplay), he highlights the worst of the worst of gaming's half-assed doppelgangers.

He even goes so far as to imply that Tecmo's Ninja Gaiden for NES is a bit too much like its console compatriot Castlevania. C'mon, Chris, I don't know about that one. I'll give you the Balloon Fight slam, maybe, but Ninja Gaiden? Heresy!

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