Comments on: Aussie TV Copies Japanese Human Tetris

By: makusu

makusu — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 22:53:23 +0000

Not only did Australian Tv make a copy of Tunnels No Minnasan no Okage Deshita, so did the Ellen (Degeneres) talk show. Their low quality rip off is called ” Through the wall or take a fall”. Well, I can’t say I’m suprised–hollywood really is just a bunch of cheapskates.

By: Human Tetris | Karmataxi

Human Tetris | Karmataxi — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:32:08 +0000

[...] Human Tetris, in Japan bekannt unter dem Namen Tunnels no Minasan no Okage Deshita. Die Australier haben das sogar für ihr Big Brother schamlos kopiert. [...]

By: consoleer » Blog Archive » Copy Cat: The Big Brother Human Tetris Unfunny Rip-off

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 12:14:38 +0000

[...] Originality is hard. Copying stuff is way, way easier. Australia’s Big Brother rips off a “human Tetris“ skit from Japanese TV. They don’t kinda rip it off, they really rip it off! Good thing people in Australia don’t watch Japanese television; too bad some still watch Big Brother, though. The only part that Big Brother doesn’t swipe from the Japanese original is the bit about the skit being funny and all. Get in Shape [Big Brother via Japan Probe] [...]

By: raindrop

raindrop — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:52:18 +0000

I wouldn’t be surprised the game was franchised. Which is the case already for Big Brother, the weakest link, who wants to be a millionaire, pop idol….

By: Bangaroo

Bangaroo — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:04:24 +0000

All TV programs from US, UK, Japan, India, Korea, Germany, France and Russia and much more are being copied by Chinese, Aussies, Kiwis, Arabs and much more.

You can’t really say it’s copy, coz it’s good thing sharing ideas is GOOD.

By: poonani

poonani — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 00:01:24 +0000

This game reminds me of `Its a Knockout` which was popular in Britain way back int the 70`s and early 80`s.

By: annie

annie — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 21:12:34 +0000

Taiwan and other countries such as Vietnam, Thailand, and China copied a lot of things from other developed countries. On the other hand, I wish copyright was more enforced in those countries. As for Korea, I know they use a lot of American’s ideas.

By: MrBungle

MrBungle — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 17:54:26 +0000

aussies are pussies! speed those boards up!

By: Raku

Raku — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 11:49:54 +0000

The boards weren’t going fast enough not one fell in on that clip.

By: 131172

131172 — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 09:36:58 +0000

Glad you brought this up. Recently a Taiwanese show features a game very similiar to the Japanese Human Tetris. I read up a Taiwan news article on this and it reported that the producer of the show denies copying the Korean(guess the reporter only knew the Korean version) instead saying that he had already used this concept in his earlier shows and he came up with the original idea. The same Taiwanese show had been alleged to copy other ideas before, one of them is the Japanese No Laughing game which I think was featured here before. Anyway it is quite obvious that the Taiwanese rip off these ideas but it just disgusts me when they simply refuse to admit it and gave some crappy explanation. However I believe the Aussie have permission to use the concept as the second Japanese Human Tetris video has a caption on the top right which says that 20 countries have licenses the concept. Below is the Taiwanese show.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2zvlVkoMEE0