{"id":44740,"date":"2012-09-18T10:52:16","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T08:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=44740"},"modified":"2012-09-18T11:11:24","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T09:11:24","slug":"super-mario-rip-off-has-no-shame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/44740-super-mario-rip-off-has-no-shame","title":{"rendered":"Super Mario rip-off has no shame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong>The Apple App store is known to be home of a lot of clones and imitation games, but there are some releases that are so blatantly similar that it\u2019s borderline criminal.<\/p>\n<p>One game in particular, 3D Cartoon Land: Safari, may have a relatively original name, but that\u2019s where it ends.<\/p>\n<p>The game is a mind-blowing rip-off of Mario\u2019s 3DS adventure, Super Mario Land 3D.<\/p>\n<p>3D Cartoon Land: Safari is described as a \u201cunique game\u201d in which you &#8220;quickly jump over obstacles and collect coins.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Maybe there\u2019s some unique underlying objective behind the cryptic description, or probably not.<\/p>\n<p>Be careful though, as the game\u2019s developer Jiang Zhi also warns: \u201cAn angry tortoise could bite you\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe we\u2019re jumping the gun and the game is actually pretty good. Louie82y played some 3D Cartoon Land: Safari, and wrote a customer review:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe best f**king game I have EVER played. Highly original, TONS O FUN. Strap on your hardhat and fixed clogged toilets in these intricately designed levels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sold.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"3D Cartoone Land\" href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/3d-cartoon-land-safari\/id555920216?l=en&amp;mt=8\" target=\"_blank\">Download 3D Cartoon Land: Safari<\/a>, or don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/mzl.ovgmgxut.320x480-75.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-44742 aligncenter\" title=\"3D Cartoon Land Safari 2\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/mzl.ovgmgxut.320x480-75.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/mzl.ovgmgxut.320x480-75.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/mzl.ovgmgxut.320x480-75-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/mzl.ovgmgxut.320x480-75-250x166.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a title=\"Eurogamer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2012-09-17-this-blatant-super-mario-ios-clone-doesnt-look-that-super\" target=\"_blank\">Eurogamer<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/41131-uncharted-rip-off-fps-looks-intriguing.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Uncharted rip-off FPS looks intriguing<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/41389-runic-games-calls-for-takedown-of-torchlight-rip-off-on-app-store.html\" target=\"_blank\">Runic Games calls for takedown of Torchlight rip-off on App Store<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/32601-fortresscraft-dev-denies-minecraft-clone-claims.html\">FortressCraft dev denies Minecraft clone claims<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/14192-fortresscraft-creator-defends-game-says-it-s-nothing-like-minecraft.html\">FortressCraft creator defends game, says it\u2019s \u201cnothing like Minecraft\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The iOS Mario rip-off doesn\u2019t even try disguise itself<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":44743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6813,31,1655,6816,323,6815,6814,1465],"class_list":["post-44740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-3d-cartoon-land-safari","tag-active","tag-app-store","tag-ios-game","tag-mario","tag-mario-ripoff","tag-ripoff","tag-super-mario-land-3d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44745,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44740\/revisions\/44745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}