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Devs copying popular games has been a thing since almost as long as they've been around. Street Fighter spawned a dozen clones that asked themselves "What if we had a Chun Li and Ryu, but changed the color of their clothes and maybe gave them a hat." Street Fighter straight ripped character designs from the Riki-Oh manga.
There's also movies like Space Balls that are Star Wars but funny.
And Data East was sued for Fighter's History, which was honestly total bullshit and Capcom ended up losing anyway.
Street Fighter was the example I thought of, honestly, with the Fighter's History suit that BelieveRevolt mentioned. There were a ton of SF2 copycats, but Fighter's History was the one that finally crossed the line in Capcom's eyes. And Nintendo is just generally more litigious than Capcom was
Space Balls is a parody, so it’s protected by different rules than something like a Streetfighter Clone, which is just a derivative mimicry
Lucas films was ready to sue over it and only relented because Mel Brooks signed an agreement saying he wouldn't do any merchandising.