I think the same might be said with EarthBound, since the Japanese version (called Mother there) was heavily reliant on Beatles songs.
More examples:
Journey's "Faithfully" provides the opening strains for Elec Man's stage in Mega Man (1987).
On another Mega Man-related note, in Mega Man II (1989), part of Flash Man's melody sounds like "I'm a Man" by Spencer Davis Group.
In Double Dragon II: The Revenge the Mission 2 theme (NES version; it's Mission 1 if you play the arcade version) sounds like snippets of both "Easy Lover" by Philip Bailey and Phil Collins, and "Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits. Elsewhere in the same game, Collins' "Sussudio" provides some inspiration to the Mission 5 theme (NES version; Mission 3 in the arcade version).
Another snippet of "Easy Lover" was heard during the Rainbow Road stage in Super Mario Kart for the Super NES.
Part of the melody for the final boss theme in McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure (1993) sounds like the opening strains of Styx's "Blue Collar Man (Long Nights)."
Here's more tough questions: which video game melodies resembled the melodies from the following songs?
1. Alberto Ginastera's "Toccata: Piano Concerto #1" (which was famously re-recorded by Emerson, Lake & Palmer in 1973)
2. "Bittersweet Symphony" by The Verve (which itself took the melody from the Andrew Oldham Orchestra version of The Rolling Stones' "The Last Time")
3. "You're No Good" as recorded in 1974 by Linda Ronstadt
~Ben






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