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The 50 Worst Videogame Names of All Time
Game Revolution has a great feature looking at fifty of the worst-named games ever to require a controller. They dig deep here, unearthing gems like 'Yo! Noid!', 'Awesome Possum Kicks Dr. Machino's Butt!', and 'Huygen's Disclosure'. From the article: "From Dick Butkus to Hootie and the Blowfish to Lake Titicaca, bad names have been with us forever. But thanks to the inevitable collision of reclusive nerds, bizarre artists and painfully unhip marketing execs, the video game industry enjoys some of the worst names of all. The following list was compiled after hours of lively debate, pages of exhausting science and one actual geek fistfight."
If I go through my B-Movie collection, one thing's for sure: They could have redone it all with essentially the same crap setup and added "IN 3D"
No wait, MS just did with XP and Vista...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Close... I think it was supposed to be King Kong.
I am at a loss to explain it but there seems to be a relationship between the word king and donkey in Japanese at lease when translating it into English because I have seen this in other places.
I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
Mark Twain
Wild Woody huh... Could've been worse, they could have had a sequel. "Wild Woody meets Mad Pussy" or something
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Awesome Possum was pretty cool. I remember playing it when I was six or seven...and annoying the hell out of whomever was in the room with me by turning "motor mouth" on.
Lake Titicaca! Lake Titicaca!
Why do we sing of its fame?
Lake Titicaca! Lake Titicaca!
'Cause we really like saying its name!
How is Skidmarks (plan-view racer on the Amiga) not on there? That's got to be /the/ worst videogame name of all time, bar none!
Oh no... it's the future.
Yes, the game was actually called Linkle Liver Story.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linkle_Liver_Story
Floppy missed the list... come on, that definitely is a suggestive name for a game. Of course, Irritating Stick's cover art is classic! That just hurts to even look at.
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Miyamoto's said as much in his interviews.
I'm partial to the video game "King and Balloon" because of the juxtaposition of two such unrelated nouns.
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The number one worst named game on the list is based on a real Japanes gameshow where contestants carry a metal rod through a maze with electrified walls, where the walls are only slightly wider than the stick.
I love the Japanese!
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Oh, and who could forget the classic Street Fighter:The Movie:The Game? I mean, it was a game about a movie that was based on a game. Has that ever been done before? Movies based on arcade games almost universally suck. And video games based on movies also suck. But a video game based on a movie based on an arcade game? That approaches a level of suckitude that almost cannot be measured. Oh, and getting back on topic: The name sucked too.
I have to say, Seaman is a really bad game name!
So we should just cound ourselves lucky it wasnt ASS KONG vs HAMMERMAN. Nintendo would have been the first company to release a gay-sex arcade game!
I always thought that "Wargy" would have been a better name for multiplayer Wargasm.
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