Doesn't Rocket Knight Adventures also just have a straight up unchanged Russian folk song in it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBU8wRCnaUM&t=2s and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF2fA1epvLE

This is just Mambo No. 5 to me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eYSttt7RW0

the metal gear solid theme lol https://youtu.be/XblPR_O9lxU

this one's actual the reverse example, few know this but earth wind and fire sampled from budokai 3 https://youtu.be/hLdMIYMSHu4

"Magnolia Eclair" from Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN- (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kxUFola5YI) and Judas Priest's "Electric Eye" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dbRdzATXBE)

"Vendetta - Preps" from Bully (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2qwkSgRtPw) and "Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CTJcHjkq0E)

neon tiger's theme in megaman x3 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J67r4IEC5Mw) is just a really bad bootleg of my michelle by guns n roses (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scmvAg_S97k)

more contentious but at least to me battle against a true hero in undertale: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWBtpBwzzdM) sounds remarkably similar to the persona 2 IS boss theme: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j6aaKa8aBg). by extension so does power of neo cuz theyre the same song.

battle garegga: Stage 2: Underwater Rampart and Underground Resistance: Jupiter Jazz
Garou: mark of the wolves: Spread the wings (Rock Howard's theme) and Rober Miles: Children

:thinking:

The map preparation theme from FE Awakening (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vebrQs-keVY) features a similar main melody to that of the everyday Hogwarts theme from Harry Potter and the Philosopher's/Sorcerer's Stone (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2S7YmfOrlg)

Also everyone already knows this but a fuckton of the music from the Dragon Ball Z Budokai games is straight-up ripped from the band Stratovarius - most well-known example is probably Challengers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZZeOh2DL7M) from Budokai 1 sounding like Hunting High and Low (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2l8KtdQ7Ek)

Oh yeah, "N's Farewell" from Pokemon Black/White (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzKRuwKyJmY) sounds like the Mother 3 Love Theme (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pSe2XhlsMw), that's another pretty well-known one

Don't know if this counts because it's all basically straight-up plagiarism but there was a composer for Dragon Ball games that was stealing songs pretty much entirely, and not small-time stuff I'm talking some of the most popular rock songs and bands there are. https://youtu.be/_J028VW2Xl8

Child of Eden: https://youtu.be/sF08N5NFMww
Xenoblade: https://youtu.be/OPWseKK3XvI

Same fucking song. Absolutely crazy. Similar chord structure (not the same tho), EXACT same key, nearly same piano timbre

i'm a music student and even i can't imagine being this well-read in classical music D:

Guys, thanks for all the contributions! Got a big listening backlog too but I'll get around to all of them eventually and add them to the list.

@mellorine Don't feel too bad about that, I'm a full time musician as well as a huge nerd about it :) Feel free not to answer if you don't want to dox yourself but are you studying classical/jazz/contemporary?

The final boss theme of Eternal Senia(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVZNJe9B4gM) has a segment around the 4 minute mark that sounds almost exactly like Ridley's Theme

i'm technically in a contemporary stream! but i've taken every opportunity to make my education focused less around jazz and more around vgm, and the stuff that directly inspired vgm - including a rudimentary background in classical.

this list is heavily in-progress and doesn't entirely reflect which ones are stuff i personally like, but i think it represents my relationship with classical music to some extent, especially the list description.
https://www.backloggd.com/u/mellorine/list/video-games-with-classical-music/