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The 30 Dumbest Video Game Titles In History
An anonymous reader writes "Not every game involves taking an axe to the head of a criminal; some classics from the 80's involved massacring camels from aircraft, or in the case of "How to Be a Complete Bastard" for the C64, something altogether different(unless you're a camel). CNet has collected the 30 most ridiculous game names and concepts from the last 25 years. Quite frankly, how some of these — including "Touch Dic" from Korea — ever made it onto store shelves is beyond me."
I was a little surprised not to see that one up there.
Then again, it was kind of a pointless list to begin with.
http://www.gamebase64.com/game.php?id=7193&d=18&h=0
Looks to me like a hack of the actual C-64 Q-Bert.
The article is also completely oblivious of how it's a spoof of cheesy horror movies of the 80's and 90's. Which is absolutely groundbreaking. Any game taken at face value without any sort of cultural circumstance is going to look ridiculous.
I personally think whoever wrote the article just went through a list of games, picked out those who looked silly, and then badmouthed them without ever really playing them, thinking they could get away with it because nobody plays them anymore.
GAAH! MY PRINTER IS ON FIRE!!! PUT IT OUT! PUT IT OUT!
Why is that game on the list? What exactly is ridiculous about the name or the concept? I've played and enjoyed it, by the way.
The game title might sound odd but its based off a book of the same name.
... that should have been included, IMO:
- Brad Zoom in "Better Dead than Alien"
- Attack Of The Mutant Zombie Flesh Eating Chickens From Mars (starring Zippo the Dog)
Especially the second (a Spectrum game) is worth mentioning.
A CC-licensed illustrated horror novel
Penn and Teller once had a game produced, "Desert Bus", in response to complaints that video games were too violent.
The player gets to drive a bus from Tucson, Arizona to Las Vegas, Nevada in real time at a maximum speed of 45mph. The game cannot be paused. The bus contains no passengers. The road is empty. Nothing happens. If the player makes it to Las Vegas, they score one point. Then a supervisor characters shows up and says "You want to pull a double shift?" The player can then drive back to Tucson. On the return trip, it slowly gets dark. That's it.
If you run off the road, the bus stalls, and eventually a tow truck shows up and tows the bus back to the starting point. In real time.
Somebody got six points once. This is believed to be the record.
Adrian Edmondson (From "The Young Ones" TV show) wrote a funny little book called "How be a complete bastard" and this game is an obvious tie-in. I still have that book somewhere and I expect it is still funny and worth reading, unlike this shitty cnet article.