Thanks to the hard work of Internet researchers, bits and pieces of one of the better-left-forgotten Mega Man conversions for the PC have been found in Duke Nukem 1, the original. Thus proving originality was never a strong point for video games (Capcom excepted):

http://www.student.tue.nl/p/f.a.m.smeijers/sfp/games/duke1.htm#copied_art

Fortunately, dedicated students of the Duke Nukem series have been posting for years that the games not only ‘borrowed’ from Mega Man, but also from Factor 5’s classic Turrican:

http://www.dosclassics.com/duke/1other.php

http://www.dosclassics.com/duke/2other.php

Interesting how things worked back in the day - this sort of thing never happens anymore ; )

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