Imitated
Original
Original adjective - Coming before all others in time or order.
Both words in one sentence
- Jaleco's Ninja Jajamaru-kun series, after the first two games, abandoned its original style of gameplay in the later Famicom installments, which instead imitated Dragon Quest (Jajamaru Ninpou Chou), The Legend of Zelda (Jajamaru Gekimaden) and Super Mario Bros.
Source: Follow The Leader / Video Games -
Peek-a-Bangs: Haruka's original hairstyle, which imitated her older sister's.
Source: Manga / Otaku no Musume-san - The fad eventually died out when none of the imitators were as successful as the original, though one of them, Cheng Long, would later go on to greater fame by pioneering his own unique, often-imitated, never-duplicated style of martial arts film.
Source: Follow The Leader / Film
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