The 50 worst video game names

by Blake Snow on Oct 26th 2006 1:20PM

Game Revolution has compiled a list of what they believe to be the 50 worst video game names. The list includes names from popular platforms while avoiding titles heavy on Engrish, educational content, and porn. They're probably dead on with top 10 stinker names like these: Totally Rad, James Pond II: Codename RoboCod, Psybadek, Nuts & Milk, Huygen's Disclosure, Bad Dudes vs. Dragon Ninja, Pesterminator: The Western Exterminator, If It Moves, Shoot It!, and Irritating Stick.

Remember any of those? Neither do we.

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Ugh. James Pond. Thanks again, EA!

This news is so old!!

I remember James Pond. Funny.

James Pond II: Robocod RULES!!!! I love that game, still whip out my 1st generation genesis (which now only works when I remove it from its formfactor) to play that. In fact, if i wasn't working right now, i'd plug it in right now. Absolutely bizarre EA Budget Games FTW!!!

Huh. Lee Trevino's Fighting Golf. I wonder if that was the inspiration for Lee Caravillo's Putting Challenge that showed up in the video game/christmas episode of the Simpsons a few years back.

Geek out,
jyg

Nuts & Milk was an old old old NES game. It was basically like a Donkey Kong type game. From what I remember, it was pretty boring.

btw - I am only defending JPII, i have no experience with the others and am sure the quality leaves something to be desired. Though i must say, i think it is funny that the first posts were all about James Pond, for a game that i think most would consider a failure and a pretty under the radar one at that, we all seem to have some memory connected with it... for me, i think there was something about the can't get it out of your head music and flying around in a bathtub which holds this game in my brain.

Wasn't there some Breakout-clone on the Sega Game Gear called "Woody Pop?"

How did THAT not make the list?

Remember them? I still own some of them!

Anyone with an objection to the name Jumpman can go pound sand. It was a great game and the name fit perfectly.

Note: Awesome Possum was far from the first gen of games using digitized or synthesized speech. There was a pretty good version of Berzerk on the Atari 800, although the video had to be switched off during the speech bits to free up system time. (Anybody else remember S.A.M., the Software Automatic Mouth?) Three Stooges made heavy use of digitized samples of SFX and speech.

Aww, c'mon. Totally Rad wasn't that terrible. I have a copy and I can think of way worse games than that.

In Nuts and Milk you were a cock'n'balls doing the donkey kong thing. I thought you said no porn games?

Whoa... this news is so old! I'm so cool for pointing out how old this news is! Can I get a star for being so cool?

.... Shut the hell up.

Toki going ape spit

I own Irritating Stick.

And I don't see what's bad about the name. It's *intended* to be ridiculous. It was based on a segment on one of those goofy Japanese game shows, which I'm sure a lot of people here know are pretty much always as ridiculous as possible.

Hey, I remember liking Jumpman on my Commodore 64.

Beyond the Beyond was a fun RPG...

I have Spanky's Quest for Game Boy. It's better than it sounds.

#9 The list is just talking about the name. And no matter how good the game is, Totally Rad is a really dumb name.

Aww, they forgot about Bill Lambier's Combat Basketball.

I dont know if I remember thsi right, but did'nt Jumpman eventually become Mario? or was it another Jumpman?

Here's a handful of Atari 2600 titles to add to the list:

Earth Dies Screaming
Frogger II Threedeep!
Hole Hunter
I Want My Mommy
Knight on the Town
Lady in Wading
Monstercise
Motorodeo
Pac-Kong
Pick 'N' Pile
Snail Against Squirrel
Starpath Dragonstomper
Starpath Rabbit Transit
Tanks But No Tanks
Tom's Eirjagd

I'm blocked from the link here at work... is there any mention of "Yoshi's Cookie"? Such a dirty, dirty name.

I used to play Tech Romancer in the arcades. It was pretty a pretty simple giant robot fighting game, but I liked it. The story mode was pretty funny too.

I've always thought that "Spawn: In the Demon's Hand" was the worst name ever. I imagine that the demon wasn't that happy about it either.

http://www.gamespot.com/dreamcast/action/spawn/index.html

#4, yeah this post is hella old

Thank you so much for linking to Engrish.com

I think you just made my day :-)

Why did they put Jumpman on the list? That is the best name ever! I like games where the title is the instruction manual. I like to know what I'm getting into when I play a game. He is a man...and he jumps!

Also, how in the hell did Tiny Tank: Up Your Arsenal not make the list? I hate games that have puns in their names.

oh man this list has some great names
Wild Woody
Beyond the Beyond
Silhouette Mirage: Reprogrammed Hope (i mean really!)
Spanky's Quest
Sticky Balls
70's Robot Anime Geppy-X: The Super Boosted Armor
Awesome Possum Kicks Dr. Machino's Butt!
Panic Restaurant
Ninja Hamster
Iggy's Reckin' Balls
Eggs of Steel: Charlie's Eggcellent Adventure
Tongue of the Fatman
Wargasm
Nuts & Milk

i mean really! no wonder people have difficulty accepting games as a real art form.

Pesterminator: The Western Exterminator sounds like a martyr for Al-Qaeda.

They should put some games on that list with titles that are way too long like, "Peter Jackson's: King Kong The Official Game of the Movie". Or One of my e-mail addresses is tlozootmqlngesf(The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time Master Quest Longest Name-Game Except Street Fighter). I know that that's really cheesy but I don't use it that e-mail that much anymore. But seriously those Street Fight games are some of the worse titles ever. Street Fighter 3: Alpha Mega Ultimate Championship Anniversary Collection Edition.

my god...

Why the in HELL is Ghostbusters NOT in that list!?

How the hell aren't "Toilet Kids", "Low G Man: The Low-Gravity Man", "Bubsy in: Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind" and "Greendog: The Beached Surfer Dude" not on this list?

uhhh Totally Radd!!? http://www.myspace.com/totallyradd
MxUxSxCxLxE!!!

they forgot

Big Rigs: Over the road racing

how could they forget it, it was strife with errors like the opponent didn't move, there was no collision detection (you could go through everything, including the bridges over valleys), there was no boundaries so you could just go flying into the abyss, and when you win (Which you will, the opponent never moves) it has a trophy pop up that says 'you're winner'.

What? No "Beat em and Eat em"?

Still own some of these. Bad Dudes was a side scrolling beat-em-up.

I would add "Snake, Rattle and Roll"

This list is incomplete without "A boy and his blob". The game was so-so, but the title was beyond bad.

Awesome Possum is, by far, the best Genisis game i have ever played. great. now i have to go find a copy.

My university (Australia) bar had a often overlooked arcade game in the corner bearing the name 'Violence Fight'.

Good times.

Guys! Sacrilege! Robocod was one of the best damn games I ever played on my Amiga. How dare you suggest we wouldn't remember that!

I actually played it through emulator on my PC like a year ago too, and it still rocked.

What about the Final Fantasy series? It would be one thing to make a sequel to a game called "Final", but's another to make 12 of them!

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