10 Video Game Rip-Offs That STILL Messed Up What They Copied
1. Chex Quest - Doom
The concept of a game ripping off the core tenants of the 1993 classic DOOM is nothing new.
After all, before the term first-person shooter became accepted nomenclature, pretty much any game where the objective was to blast your way through various science fiction inspired levels was referred to as a DOOM clone.
Some of these 'clones' were actually pretty decent games in their own right, earning plaudits for pushing the burgeoning genre beyond its crude but lovable roots.
Others... not so much.
About as literal a clone as will feature on this list, Chex Quest was little more than a reskinning of id Software's masterpiece with replaced textures and models to tone down the ultra-violence of the original for the primary school-aged market.
Originally distributed as a pack-in for Chex cereal, the game is about as good as you would expect for something that fell out a breakfast box, with contemporary critics criticising it for being as close to a carbon copy as legal restrictions would likely allow.
It's not all bad though. Despite being panned in the video game press, Chex Quest was a marketing triumph and maintains a cult status among fans to this day.