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728: Video Game Lawsuits-Cloned Games

Retronauts

Retronauts

Technology, Games, Video Games, Leisure

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 135 minutes

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Summary

The clones attack, as Kevin Bunch, Diamond Feit, Meredith Rose, and Mollie Patterson discuss the history of court cases around cloning video games like Pac-Man and Street Fighter II.

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This week on Retronauts. I'm your host, Kevin Bunch. This is not an episode about Star Wars or the Clone Wars, except it's kind of about clone wars of a sort. A lot less laser blasting, a lot more legal filing.

1:51.6

So this is the first and what I'm kind of thinking might be a fun series of episodes to do about the world of video game lawsuits, because these are such a rich resource of information

2:00.2

about the industry and about its history.

2:04.0

And I'm really excited to talk about this particular topic, which is on, you know, lawsuits surrounding game clones.

2:12.4

And before we dig any further into that, I want to introduce the folks I have with me.

2:17.1

We'll go alphabetically. It'll

2:19.0

make it easy. I think that's me because my name is Diamond Fight. And honestly, the only

2:25.3

reason I'm here is because I made an episode about Doom Clones a while back. So if Kevin didn't

2:30.9

have me on here, I would sue him for stealing my ideas.

2:35.2

It's fair.

2:37.8

It's a proud tradition in copyright law.

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