Pretty Close!

Roperious1 · Postby **Roperious1** » August 5th, 2010, 8:31 am

Critic!

I know that this might just be paraphrasing, but it's obvious that your review of M.U.S.H.A. for the Genesis was a very strong influence for this article. Some lines are very, very close.

(scroll down to the review)

http://www.racketboy.com/retro/2007/01/hidden-gems-best-undiscovered-sega.html

Jknight253 · Postby **Jknight253** » August 5th, 2010, 1:49 pm

Nice find this is definetly inspired and maybe even a little bit plagarized from the VGC's review I read the two side by side and its nearly identical for the first paragraph.

JustLikeHeaven1 · Postby **JustLikeHeaven1** » August 5th, 2010, 2:10 pm

The reviews are very close...

I wonder if racketboy's site had permission though since he once interviewed the Critic during a podcast.

Roperious1 · Postby **Roperious1** » August 5th, 2010, 4:27 pm

There may very well be other similar reviews located on this website?

ActRaiser1 · Postby **ActRaiser1** » August 5th, 2010, 4:40 pm

Hah, when I was in high school and had to research a paper I paraphrased my reports by doing very similar things. Remove a word here and there, swap things around, drop a few sentences, and "tada!" one report with minimal work involved.

Nice to see similar skill used on the inner tubes.

// I had a bibliography to define the source.

Postby **VideoGameCritic** » August 5th, 2010, 6:01 pm

No, there was no permission given to use the review. This kind of stuff really irritates me.

Would someone please notify the Racketboy site administrator and inform him of the situation?

Let me know what happens.

Thanks for your support guys...

Jknight · Postby **Jknight** » August 5th, 2010, 7:00 pm

Hope they take down the Musha review and hope they learn from this. I've never been plagarized ( not tthat I know of,) but its got to be frustrating to put all that work in and have someone else getting compliments on your writing. Nice to see this being taken care of.

gleebergloben1 · Postby **gleebergloben1** » August 6th, 2010, 1:06 am

this is pure plagiarism, without a doubt. good catch roperious.

Roperious1 · Postby **Roperious1** » August 6th, 2010, 7:43 am

Has anyone notified Racketboy yet? I think we should try out best to scan what he has up to see how close his other reviews are.

Racketboy (Nick) · Postby **Racketboy (Nick)** » August 6th, 2010, 1:12 pm

Terribly sorry to hear about this! I'll have that part removed when I get home tonight (the site is blocked from work)

That was an old piece that a bunch of people had patched together (can't remember who) and I'm sorry that happened.

That was our first Hidden Gems piece and it kinda shows, so I've been meaning to have the whole thing redone.

Thanks for letting me know, Bobby (via the blog comments)