Has anyone visited the '9' ? I submitted Retrojunk (http://www.retrojunk.com/), it was put up, & got the most votes. ;D Then I stopped going there, because it was boring.
Anyway, I saw that John Leguizamo was hosting it, so I went there. Then I found this (http://9.yahoo.com/#).
Guess what Famicom game name made the list?
Wow. That blondie wasn't very good at faking her enthusiasm. :P
I think the Famicom game picked by the site was reasonable -- it is a terrible name. There's a lot of Famicom game names that lack creativity (Baseball, Tennis, Banana, De-Block, Dragon Unit, Effort) but I have trouble finding any that are laughably bad. Last Armageddon is kinda redundant. Sexy Slot isn't bad but makes me giggle.
Quote from: JC on December 01, 2006, 03:36:09 pm
Wow. That blondie wasn't very good at faking her enthusiasm. :P
Maria Sansone? Yeah, because she does it everyday. :P But she's hot. :P
As for bad movie names, doesn't final destination 2 & 3 sound redundant as well? The thing with Final Fantasy is, the creator, forgot his name, was intending it to be his final game - hence Final Fantasy.
So every time another Final Fantasy is created, I guess they assume it'll be the last. :P
On a similar note....Final Fight 2 & Final Fight 3 :D
FINAL is a very powerful word isn't it?
I dont know if a Famicom version came out, but Totally Rad on the NES. Almost as bad as Heavy Shreddin'.
Totally Rad and Heavy Shreddin' are awesome names! Totally Rad in Japan is Magic John; an equally totally rad game name.
I think Gimmick! is an awful name. It means nothing in relation to the game itself, other than perhaps the extra channels (which are actually not a gimmick but very substantial) or the stars, but if those are a gimmick then Belmont's whip is double that.
Adding, the ! mark is pointless and further irrelevant even if the title font is lovely. Heck, even the PAL version is called Mr.Gimmick, the European distributors didn't have the faintest clue about the title either and they were working the the developers! Seems they decided to base it around the character in a moment of dumbfoundness.
I think that, a great game as it is has the worst title. Just because it's a good game doesn't aleviate it from having a poor name.
Challenger.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b1/Challenger_boxart.png)
Prepare to be challenged.
I never thought about that one before, but yeah, that's a pretty sad attempt.
Load Runner. Me and my brothers made a joke a few years ago and a drawing to go with it! It was about the game being about the guy running around with a load in his pants! :D
Ha, that made me picture it and sounds amusing.
It's spelled Lode though, it's not even a word is it? The name actually annoys me, it makes no sense yet somehow always makes me thin of Logan's Run.
I always think of the Road Runner when I hear lode runner for some reason.
lode
/loʊd/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [lohd] Show IPA
-noun
1. a veinlike deposit, usually metalliferous.
2. any body of ore set off from adjacent rock formations.
3. a rich supply or source.
...Makes perfect sense
Yeah, like "Mother Lode".
So it turns out it is a word, but consider this:
- have you ever heard anyone use it? not me and I've studied way more literature than I had sense to.
- this is a game primarily for kids, not phd grads.
- why use a specialised scientific term when the game is about a guy killing underground trias witha magic wand?
Beats me! I'd have called it GIPPO, seeing as the guy runs around stealing gold and leading folk astray :)
... No really the term "lode" is used a lot, primarily as Rogles said, in the phrase "mother lode" as in "i hit/found the mother lode!"
Speaking of game names that make us titter like little kids, my 12 year old self always gets a laugh over "Nuts & Milk."
Hahaha nuts and milk!
'Mother lode' made me think of something else I'm afraid!
>_> I learned what a lode was in 8th grade science class.
Hmm, maybe it's a yank thing, I've never ever heard it in my life before, ever :) I assure you I am educated too, they were always referred to as deposits or clusters even though that's less descriptive. I must admit science / geography is NOT my forte!
But to keep on track, I never liked the name Castlevania either. I mean, I do like it and love the game but it seems like a really rushed territory rename. Take Megaman, that is a great territory rename but Castlevania? It seems like they just though " Hmm...Transylvania or Castle Dracula? Heck we'll just mishmash them and be done with it!"
I'm the opposite way: I don't care for the name "Megaman" but I love the name "Castlevania." I think the problem was that they couldn't use the name "Dracula" since it was at the time still under copyright. I think Castlevania perfectly evokes the ideas and emotions they were going for while not using terms that could get them sued. Megaman, on the other hand, doesn't have anything to do w/ the original name, and it seems like a totally arbitrary name change. Rockman isn't a copyright issue, and I like the musical naming of the allies. Rockman, Roll, Bass, Forte... I think that's pretty cool. Megaman just doesn't mean or signify anything in my mind. In fact, it conjures up visions of some enormous dude rather than a little kid.
I thought "Dracula" was legend folk tale or some sort so how could it really be copy-written? MegaMan would make the thought of a guy who has a big **** or something so my first thought on playing it would be different until I would actualy play the any game of the series.
Names are usually not able to be copyrighted fully but let's say there's a movie at the time, then yeah it's a no-go unless you get the licensor blessing (or license it again).
It's not a folk tale per say, as Dracula was a real Hungarian.
Think the vampire bit is made up though :D
Quote from: Nightstar699 on September 02, 2009, 11:04:06 pm
Hahaha nuts and milk!
Any chance nuts and milk are a favorite Japanese snack or something. Then it would make sense. Like naming a game Milk and Cookies here in the States.
What exactly is nuts and milk for as a snack (and not the sexual one :D)?
There is a possibility that "Nuts and Milk" could be another case Engrish like "all your base are belong to us"/
Per Wikipedia:
QuoteSet in a fantasy world, Nuts & Milk follows the story of a pink male blob Milk who must find his fiancée, a similar pink blob with a red hair bow, and rescue her from Nuts, a teal blob who also vies for her affection. The journey will take Milk through several levels where the process of finding and saving his love will repeat itself several times as Nuts mounts an ever-present resistance against his quest for romance.
Could you imagine if your name was nuts? "Hi, I'm Nuts!" Just doesn't work. Guess that's why he took to calling himself Mr. Nutz. "that's MISTER NUTZ to you!"
... ok I got nothing.
I'm surprised "Ballblazer" didn't come up yet. Think about that for a while...
Haha, that's a good one.
I never understood the name "Son Son". Does it mean something in Japanese, or something?
ASO: Armored Scrum Object
Always sounded "meh" to me.
Quote from: nintendodork on September 10, 2009, 07:06:57 pm
Haha, that's a good one.
I never understood the name "Son Son". Does it mean something in Japanese, or something?
It's another name for Goku, aka the Monkey King, the original inspiration for Dragon Ball.
Anyways, my favorite bad name for a game is
Booby Kids, for obvious reasons. It makes sense for the concept of the game, but it still conjures up other mental images...
Namakubi is right.
His "full name" is Son Gokuu （孫悟空） in Japanese, or Sun Wukong in Chinese.
son (孫)means "grandchild".
Wild Snake make me wounder what was on the developer's minds.