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I'm not sure if you understand the video game industry, but literally every popular game is a clone of something that came before it.

EDIT: This is obviously not true for some X where X is a base case of a popular game genre (e.g. Portal, Donkey Kong, Wolfenstein 3d), but it's generally true. Mario 64 is just a 3d platformer at some level, which is why it's so easy to clone.

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Either you've redefined "literally" or "cloned" to mean something they don't mean. Or both.

Portal: Narbacular Drop

Wolfenstein 3d: Catacomb 3d

Note- I'm not certain that the games on the right are the originators of the genre of games on the left, but they certainly came prior.

The games on the right certainly are the originators of the games on the left; in fact, in both cases, the developers of the game on the right were the very team which followed up by developing the game on the left.

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