The 50 worst video game names

by Blake Snow { Oct 26th 2006 at 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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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

unimental @ Oct 26th 2006 1:24PM

Ugh. James Pond. Thanks again, EA!

slestak @ Oct 26th 2006 1:29PM

This news is so old!!

Spence @ Oct 26th 2006 1:28PM

I remember James Pond. Funny.

Yaktastic @ Oct 26th 2006 1:28PM

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!!!

jygsaw @ Oct 26th 2006 1:29PM

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

Aux @ Oct 26th 2006 1:30PM

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.

Yaktastic @ Oct 26th 2006 1:33PM

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.

JustSayNo @ Oct 26th 2006 1:39PM

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

How did THAT not make the list?

epobirs @ Oct 26th 2006 2:13PM

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.

acceptablerisk @ Oct 26th 2006 1:43PM

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

Jose @ Oct 26th 2006 1:47PM

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

Frosty22 @ Oct 26th 2006 3:06PM

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.

Johnny @ Oct 26th 2006 1:55PM

Toki going ape spit

Jeff @ Oct 26th 2006 1:57PM

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.

Lorben @ Oct 26th 2006 1:57PM

Hey, I remember liking Jumpman on my Commodore 64.

Anna @ Oct 26th 2006 9:15PM

Beyond the Beyond was a fun RPG...

Crazylink @ Oct 26th 2006 3:35PM

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

Exick @ Oct 26th 2006 2:06PM

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

Chachi @ Oct 26th 2006 2:21PM

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

Saiclone @ Oct 27th 2006 3:34AM

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

Robotic House Plant @ Oct 26th 2006 2:26PM

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

unimental @ Oct 26th 2006 2:29PM

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

J Empire @ Oct 26th 2006 2:38PM

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.

Psykechan @ Oct 26th 2006 2:41PM

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

Agent MOO @ Oct 26th 2006 2:44PM

#4, yeah this post is hella old

Will K @ Oct 26th 2006 2:48PM

Thank you so much for linking to Engrish.com

I think you just made my day :-)

Levi @ Oct 26th 2006 3:06PM

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.

babash @ Oct 26th 2006 3:28PM

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.

mykie @ Oct 26th 2006 3:52PM

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

Judd @ Oct 26th 2006 4:18PM

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.

Clorox Man @ Oct 26th 2006 4:29PM

my god...

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

87th @ Oct 26th 2006 5:17PM

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?

jesus_bon_jovi @ Oct 26th 2006 5:46PM

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

Liam @ Oct 28th 2006 11:24PM

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'.