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Nothing beats the Mama Luigi song.

Not NES, but the PSX game Wild Arms pretty blatantly rips melodies from Ennio Morricone:

Wild Arms: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F3qtu9e8yI
Original (one of the best songs of all time, IMO): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubVc2MQwMkg

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That makes sense to me; Wild Arms did seem to have a lot of spaghetti western elements to it.

Feeneeshed! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJi2Q5NgOHw

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A good Nigerian friend of mine at work was playing this song, and it has an unmistakeably similar bridge before it goes into the chorus and verses.

See if you can pick it out.

Lucky Dube - Different Colors released in 1993.

tepples would also get a kick out of this...

Has it been 3 years already?!

Oh yeah, that's right-- time moves. Anyway, it looks like I may have enough new entries to make another video compilation. Here's what I have so far:

???? Ballad of John and Yoko -> ???? Donkey Kong "25m"
1966 Simon & Garkunkel "Scarborough Fair" -> ???? Bill & Ted's Excellent Video Game Adventure (Medieval World)
1967 The Beatles "When I'm Sixty Four" -> 1990 Rescue Rangers (Zone B)
1976 Thin Lizzy "Massacre" -> 1990 Silver Surfer (Stage 1)
1976 Kiss "Shout it Out Loud" -> 1990 Mega Man 3 "Dr. Wily Stage 1"
Paul McCartney & Wings "Jet" -> 1992 TMNT 3 "Break Down"
1980 Queen "Another One Bites the Dust" -> ???? Pictionary (Mini-Game 1)
1982 Billy Joel "Pressure" -> 1990 Castlevania III "Pressure"
1985 Phil Collins "Sussudio" -> 1989 Double Dragon II "Escape to the Forest"
1986 Bon Jovi "You Give Love A Bad Name" -> 1989 Super Spike V'Ball "Exercise"

And here are some exceptional NES -> Rock similarities:

1986 Castlevania "Stalker" ----------------------> 2010 Avenged Sevenfold "Nightmare"
1989 Ninja Gaiden "A Decision -Father's Letter-" -> 2005 System of a Down "Dreaming"
1990 Dash Galaxy ---------------------------------> 2009 Ewan Dobson "I Know Your Pain" (<- not sure about this one)
1990 Last Ninja "Final Battle" -------------------> 1999 Korn "Falling Away from Me"

Last time you guys were a really great help. If you have some more suggestions, I'll be really grateful. (and I'll credit you individually this time instead of just NESdev )

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Scarborough Fair is actually centuries old. Simon & Garfunkel wrote and added the canticle (pedantically, not really a canticle, which seems to be a term meaning "took an existing melody and applied new lyrics to it")