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The 50 Worst Videogame Names of All Time

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the avoid-the-noid-indeed dept.

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."

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  1. Re:"Wargasm" and "If It Moves, Shoot It" by Chinju · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, I recall that Wargasm's title had little to do with the game (beyond the "War" part, anyway). To quote IGN: "Apparently someone at DID's marketing department thought that the 'kids' might dig it if they took their latest action title, put a woman in a bulging flak jacket on the cover (maybe she's carrying a bunch of grenades) and named it after something sexual. The PR staff picked up on the Beavis and Butthead vibe and began sending us sheaves of mail with jokes like 'It's time for Wargasm' and 'Multiple Wargasm.' After this ridiculous blitzkrieg of banality (which must have humiliated the actual design team beyond measure) Tal, Jason and I began furiously scrapping over who was going to have to review a game that was sure to be as embarrassing on the inside as it was on the out. I lost (for those of you who keep track of such things, let me warn you that Jason carries brass knuckles) and sadly loaded the game only to find that there was nothing within the actual software that had anything to do with the title, the chick on the cover or anything else we received in the mail. What I did find was a solid action game that is surprisingly hard to put down." So the name clearly turned people off to the game who might otherwise have enjoyed it. That's about as bad as a name can be.

  2. Street Fighter by Otis2222222 · · Score: 5, Funny
    I was going to make a mention of "Street Fighter 2 EX Alpha 2 Turbo Hyper Fighting Zero edition 3 limited" or whatever the name of that game was. Seriously, they had some ridiculously long titles in that series.

    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.