I couldn't believe it at first, but it's true.
I was listening to Darlin', which was the Paris band that Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo were in before they formed Daft Punk. Specifically, I was listening to this proto-Daft Punk track, when I heard something recognizable around the 1:10 mark and elsewhere in the song:
Immediately I thought, "It couldn't be..." and compared it with this sinister ambient track from the beloved 1995 SNES RPG EarthBound:
Sure enough, a visit to whosampled.com confirmed that Bangalter, de Homem-Christo, and EarthBound composer Hirokazu Tanaka were all sampling from the same source: "Electrocution 05," a short clip from Universe of Sounds Vol. 2 (1986).
Universe of Sounds Vol. 2 was a sound bank made by OMI (Optical Media International). It was made for E-MU's Emulator II, an early digital sampling keyboard. Which suggests both Daft Punk and Hirokazu Tanaka owned or had access to an Emulator II, and coincidentally both used the same sample pack and sample... within a year or two of each other!
I never thought I'd find a common link between so many longtime interests of mine: Daft Punk, EarthBound, and synthesizers. What a trip.