This Company Made Knock Off Games...With Great Success

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It’s common to see knock-off versions of games that try to capitalize off the success of well-established titles. Pac-Man saw a lot of bootlegs that were ROM hacks of the original. Nintendo and Atari also had bootleggers make unauthorized versions of their games. Then there’s Universal, who made numerous knock-off games of their own. How were they able to avoid lawsuits when other companies were getting in trouble? And were Universal’s games just shameless rip-offs, or did the company actually make some good games?

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Chapters:

0:00 Introduction
1:35 Bootleg Games
4:00 Universal’s Early Titles
6:15 Space Panic
7:30 Lady Bug
8:20 Mr Do!
9:22 Home Console Ports
10:05 How Universal Avoided a Lawsuit
11:31 Outtro

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The "digging a hole and burying the enemy in it" concept was started a few years before in the game Heiankyo Alien, though that was a top down pac-man type game. But that top down concept has been copied many many times since.

BTW If you're doing all these lawsuit videos, you got to cover KC Munchkin at some point ^_^

Larry

Honestly Mr. Do is so good I never even thought of it as a Dig-Dug clone. They are (to me) completely different games with completely different strategies for success.

MrMegaManFan

Universal was a big reason the Colecovision was great. They offered something different to consumers in a tired market and did them with arcade quality. I remember when the Colecovision debuted how impressive some of those Universal games were. It's too bad there isn't some kind of Nintendo Switch Universal collection.

urbanknish

GCC wasn't really doing bootlegs though, they were making unauthorized conversion kits for the original boards. It's kinda popular now for collectors of the games GCC made kits for to set it up so you can switch between the original game and the "upgrade" version.

kameoosama

I have no words to express how happy it makes me to have pojr do his signature smile after his intro. That and his Chicago accent makes me click right away. Oh and the content is great too. :)

ConsoleCombat

Universal games were top notch. They perfected Pac-Man, Dig Dug, and Scramble. The Mr. Do series is excellent!

myflyisopen.

I own an Universal arcade cabinet with Mr. Do and added a swappable LadyBug pcb, quality product. Games are deep and replay value is high. Great video!

luckylukev

Honestly, I would say Mr Do! Is an original title, though it did get a pc competitor called Digger in which you play as a drill collecting fruit and squashing monsters.

gentlesoul

This guy comes up with some really original and interesting topics. Keep up the good work

lawrencemoody

I remember playing ladybug on my cousin's colecovision back in the day... Not only was it a pretty faithful port that didn't lose much graphically compared to the arcade, it had really swift, precise controls, some decent musical cues and tons of replayability. Thanks Pojr... this was a great video! Already subscribed and smashed that like for ya as well.

mabus

Mr. Do felt like more of a sequel to Dig Dug than Dig Dug 2.

FeralInferno

Lady Bug was a good game and deserves more than just being disregarded as a pac man clone

Koexistence

Universal introduced the concept of having Sequels be totally different concepts than the original. Of the 4 Mr Do games. Only the first and Do Run Run are similar enough the be "gameplay sequels". Mr Do's Castle was basically a rethemed Space Panic 2. And Mr Do's Wild Ride was totally original.

Who owns the rights to Universal video games? Are they still in business? Why not release them as modern downloads for Switch?

jackofallgamesTV

Great concept, please cover some other less known arcade companies, Century Electronics springs to mind. And totally right about Mr Do! it was a great game that I still enjoy playing, Dig Dug was boring. Minor point - Cosmic Alien was a copy of Galaxian not Galaga.

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