Favourite Game Name

[thrush]

Okay, silly question #2 for me tonight, but another one I've been thinking about for a long time.

What is your favourite video game name?

I ask this because a lot of my favourite games have not-so-memorable names like "Such and Such 3" or "Mega Super Something Or Other".  It's a silly question so I expect at least a few silly answers.  ^_-  But, I'm a language-geek at heart so I think about these things.  I'll throw out my two top choices:

Kirby: Nightmare in Dreamland  -  This one is totally cliche, I know, but for me it works well precisely and solely because the titular Nightmare is a person, not an event or analogy for the state of things in Dreamland.  I don't know if I can defend it better than that, but the name has stuck in my head for years, despite the fact that I actually like the original Kirby's Adventure about a million times more than this remake.

Riven  -  Okay, okay, it has the very unsexy "the Sequel to Myst" tagline, but the title itself is, I think, a real highlight in the gaming world: it's evocative, unusual, euphonic, suggestive of the play mechanics (to an extent), & encapsulates the game's theme on multiple levels.

Beyond these two stand-outs for me it gets difficult to separate my like/dislike of the game itself from the title specifically, but maybe I'd suggest Pac-Mac as well for creatively saying a lot in a little.  Any thoughts?

[nodtveidt]

Shatterhand

[runinruder]

Blood Gear
Chaos Legion

[Tatsujin]

R-Type
OutRun
Makaimura
Gradius
Xevious
Aresu no tsubasa
etc.

[sunteam_paul]

Exed Exes

or

XDR - X-Dazedley-Ray

[Tatsujin]

Cybernoid

[_joshuaTurbo]

Shatterhand

I totally second Shatterhand!

how about:
Ninja Gaiden
Double Dragon
Legendary Axe
Bangai - O
Air Zonk

all great/classic game names.

with shit like 'Modern Warfare X' or 'Angry Birds' these days, it really makes me miss originality in game names.

of course my least favourites would be:
*any title*64    LOL

[chany60126]

I have to go with Plok. It's an awesome SNES game where the main character can fling out his limbs and use them as weapons. The soundtrack is an absolute masterpiece; Tim Follin's best work IMHO.

Another game name I like is Zombies Ate My Neighbors, another great game.

[DragonmasterDan]

My favorite game title is Cthulhu Saves the World: Super Hyper Enhanced Championship Edition Alpha Diamond DX Plus Alpha FES HD – Premium Enhanced Game of the Year Collector’s Edition (without Avatars!)

[Tatsujin]

Plok

I so knew that this name will appear when I read your nick on the threads front page

[TheClash603]

Great pick with Zombies Ate My Neighbors.

However, the one game which I always have said is the best name of all time is Rush N' Attack.

[Tolvatar]

Snatcher and Firebird (Hinotori) for the MSX

[Keranu]

"Hot Dog Storm," followed by "Plumbers Don't Wear Ties."

[thrush]

Awesome, this is great list.  I especially concur with "Shatterhand" & "Ninja Gaiden".  "Rush N' Attack" is awesome on multiple levels, as well as, after a fashion... "Plumbers Don't Wear Ties".  (Hey, it definitely is suggestive of the theme!  >_(\  )  And I completely agree that "fill-in-the-blank 64" is at the very bottom of the barrel.  Some other good-ish ones I thought of:

Trinity
Pipe Dream
Grim Fandango

In the ironically humorous department, "Hotel Mario" conjures up all sorts of incongruous images.  Not sure how I feel about "Doom" or "Contra".  Both are evocative, but also somewhat vague.  "Touhou Koumakyou: the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil" seems a little redundant, but you could argue that the Japanese & English play off one another, and the English subtitle is certainly a vivid image.  (I am unqualified to judge the Japanese side of it.)  I rather like "Doki Doki Panic" but the name doesn't really connect to anything in the game that I'm aware of.  For whatever reason, "Hot Dog Storm" makes me think of "Day of the Tentacle".  I am unfamiliar with Firebird, but I see it has a super-cool titlescreen.  ^^

[munchiaz]

Ring of red. oso tatake ouendan. sin &punishment.