# The 30 Dumbest Video Game Titles Ever **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 28, 2008, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-30-dumbest-video-game-titles-ever/443050 "2008-03-28T15:03:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2008, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-30-dumbest-video-game-titles-ever/443050/21 "2008-03-29T01:50:53Z")
[QUOTE=fusoya] I can attest that Ship Simulator SUCKED. I’d imagine Bus Driver is even worse. [/QUOTE] That depends, can you emulate piloting a _Virginia_ class nuke cruiser? I’d pay good money just for the half hour it would take to run the _WarPig_ through the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel… Don’t worry, I know I’m not normal… ---
**Author:** ![DKW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dkw/32/3118_2.png) [@DKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DKW)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2008, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-30-dumbest-video-game-titles-ever/443050/22 "2008-03-29T02:10:26Z")
Hey, I’ve played Violence Fight! (Simplistic pre-Street Fighter 2 3-button 360-roaming fighter) And also the similar Aggressors of Dark Kombat. Made by ADK, get it? Not anwhere near as cool as a game with “Kombat” in the title should’ve been. I’ve also played all of the following: King of the Monsters 2: The Next Thing :rolleyes: Dimahoo U.N. Squadron Traverse USA, a.k.a Zippy Race Dunk Shot 😕 Blasteroids The Lord of Gun Xenophobe (Anyone who is deathly blah blah blah) Kicker Jojo’s Venture (“Noooo! Dio cannot be removed from his position with a leveraged buyout!”) Paddle Mania Double Dribble Bust a Move Again :rolleyes: Quartet Punch-Out!! (Boxing!! Game!! Named!! After!! Routine!! Workday!! Procedure!!) Power Instinct Knuckle Bash Fatal Fury 3: Road to the Final Victory (I wish 😃 ) 19XX: The War Against Destiny Terra Cresta Bad Dudes vs. Dragonninja Captain America and The Avengers (not to be confused with Josie and the Pussycats or Alvin and the Chipmunks) Rush 'n Attack And my vote for worst NES title ever, hands down, goes to Scheherazade. The first moment I looked at this, I thought, “Who the _freak_ thought this was pronouncable??” ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2008, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-30-dumbest-video-game-titles-ever/443050/23 "2008-03-29T03:20:39Z")
From a purely logical standpoint “Final Fantasy” is one of the stupidest titles ever. They just keep making new ones - it’s never final. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2008, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-30-dumbest-video-game-titles-ever/443050/24 "2008-03-29T03:22:55Z")
Oh and I remember Rush’N’Attack - I love how you could launch a rocket and if there was more than one enemy on the screen, the rocket would go _through_ the first guy and keep moving, killing the second guy as well. Also, I think the background music plagiarised the guitar solo from “Reelin’ In The Years” by Steely Dan. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2008, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-30-dumbest-video-game-titles-ever/443050/25 "2008-03-29T04:46:35Z")
[QUOTE=DKW] And my vote for worst NES title ever, hands down, goes to Scheherazade. The first moment I looked at this, I thought, “Who the _freak_ thought this was pronouncable??” [/QUOTE] Not a game name, but I bet nobody outside the company ever correctly figured out how to spell the name of software house Psygnosis (IMHO, best third-party game developer ever that isn’t Konami). _3 Ninjas Kick Back_ always stuck out as a cherishably ridiculous title for me. How exciting - ninjas on barcaloungers! ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2008, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-30-dumbest-video-game-titles-ever/443050/26 "2008-03-29T05:51:23Z")
[QUOTE=Argent Towers] From a purely logical standpoint “Final Fantasy” is one of the stupidest titles ever. They just keep making new ones - it’s never final. [/QUOTE] But the first WAS intended to be final. The blame lies with the producer not retiring. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2008, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-30-dumbest-video-game-titles-ever/443050/27 "2008-03-29T20:49:37Z")
[QUOTE=DKW] Bad Dudes vs. Dragonninja [/QUOTE] Which, of course, has one of the strangest intros of all time: President Ronnie has been kidnapped by ninjas! Are you a bad enough dude to rescue Ronnie? ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2008, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-30-dumbest-video-game-titles-ever/443050/28 "2008-03-29T22:44:42Z")
Ninja Hamster was (loosely) based on the comic book Adolescent Radioactive Blackbelt Hamsters, a parody of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, so the weird title/subject matter can be blamed on another field (and it was even sold as ARBBH through the letters page of the comic here in the US, the UK title was more generic due to lack of licensing there); had the comic been more popular, I think the title would sound less ridiculous. If Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles wasn’t well-known, I’d wager it’d look pretty ridiculous now. Not sure why “Ship Simulator” would be on the list. It’s a boring title to be sure, but certainly not a dumb name, as it fits in with the naming scheme established by the Flight Simulator series. I always thought the arcade games Gondomania and Zzyzzyx had stupid names. The Genesis game “Awesome Possum Kicks Dr. Machino’s Butt!” was the zenith (or nadir, as you will) of edgy/rockin’/mascot-with-'tude game names. Shoot 'Em Up Construction Kit was entertaingly widely known as SEUCK, which always seemed vaguely vulgar to me in the 80s. I do think Americans have become more accustomed to the rather weird names Japanese often come up with; I recall people chuckling over “Silent Debuggers” for the Turbo Grafx-16; now, games names like Guilty Gear don’t seem odd. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2008, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-30-dumbest-video-game-titles-ever/443050/29 "2008-03-29T23:01:15Z")
[QUOTE=Hal Briston] What, no love for _Spellcasting 101: Sorcerors Get All The Girls_? [/QUOTE] I loved that game! ---
**Author:** ![Frosted\_Glass](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frosted_glass/32/3926_2.png) [@Frosted\_Glass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frosted_Glass)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2008, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-30-dumbest-video-game-titles-ever/443050/30 "2008-03-29T23:54:45Z")
_Zombies ate my Neighbors_ is one of my all time favorite Genesis games. I loved the zombie killing techniques. That game used to keep me and my friends busy forever on breaks from school. _Ninjabread Man_?! Were they serious? What a great title though. _Bus Driver_ looked like a ridiculous waste of time. ---
**Author:** ![Euryphaessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Euryphaessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euryphaessa)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2008, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-30-dumbest-video-game-titles-ever/443050/31 "2008-03-30T00:06:33Z")
I’ve played a demo of _No One Can Stop Mr. Domino!_ and it sucked. So now I’ve played two games with officially horrible titles. I also own one of the games (_Bubsy 3D_) on Wikipedia’s list of “Video games notable for negative reception.” (I swear they used to call that article something like “Worst video games ever”, but I could be imagining things) I can’t link to it because iGod screwed with my computer’s clipboard and now I can’t copy and paste anything or it says This website content is copyrighted. On a side note, does anyone know how to fix that? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2008, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-30-dumbest-video-game-titles-ever/443050/32 "2008-03-30T00:25:02Z")
[QUOTE=Frosted Glass] _Bus Driver_ looked like a ridiculous waste of time. [/QUOTE] It is. You lose points for things not using your turn signal when changing lanes and stopping too fast at a bus stop, which “distresses passengers” who are already on your bus. Once you get over the absurdity of it all (about ten minutes), it’s pretty lame. I do hope that the trend of making boring professions into video games continues, though. I’m looking forward to _Accounting Madness_ and _Super Claims Adjuster Challenge_. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2008, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-30-dumbest-video-game-titles-ever/443050/33 "2008-03-30T00:28:44Z")
[QUOTE=DocCathode] Tongue Of The Fatman is a great game. It was rereleased with some minor changes as Mondu’s Fight Palace for the Genesis and SNES. I love this game and wish I could get it to run on my current machine. You can bet on your fights and buy weapons, safety devices, and performance enhancing drugs. [/QUOTE] I played Tongue Of The Fatman on the PC, and enjoyed it a lot. I liked playing as the thing that just had two muscled arms as limbs, with no legs. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2008, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-30-dumbest-video-game-titles-ever/443050/34 "2008-03-30T04:10:30Z")
[QUOTE=neutron star] I’m looking forward to _Accounting Madness_ and _Super Claims Adjuster Challenge_. [/QUOTE] Not to mention _Quality Assurance Tycoon_. ---
**Author:** ![GameHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed655f/32.png) [@GameHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GameHat)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2008, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-30-dumbest-video-game-titles-ever/443050/35 "2008-03-30T06:46:21Z")
The most shocking thing about the original link is that CNet still exists ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2008, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-30-dumbest-video-game-titles-ever/443050/36 "2008-03-30T10:23:30Z")
No love for Combat Wombat? ---
**Author:** ![DKW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dkw/32/3118_2.png) [@DKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DKW)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2008, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-30-dumbest-video-game-titles-ever/443050/37 "2008-03-30T23:03:48Z")
Don’t forget Irritating Maze. And after nearly three decades, “Ms. Pac-Man” still looks weird to me. Oh, almost forgot… Vindicators The Combatribes Trio The Punch: Never Forget Me (and the game itself is at least twice as weird) Stocker Fighter’s History Block Block Kid Niki: Radical Ninja (nb. Having a funky hairstyle and wielding a 4-bladed weapon does not make one “radical”) Ataxx Gunbarich Second Xexyz as well, and if the Internet were around then, I think the “what were they smoking” comments would’ve easily reached 5 figures. ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-30-dumbest-video-game-titles-ever/443050/38 "2008-03-31T01:41:20Z")
[QUOTE=DKW] Don’t forget Irritating Maze. [/QUOTE] I think that was Irritating Stick. Which makes it even weirder of a name. (Then, of course, you find out it’s based on a live-action game show in Japan where contestants get the hell shocked out of them, and it reaches a new level of weirdness.) ---
**Author:** ![DKW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dkw/32/3118_2.png) [@DKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DKW)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-30-dumbest-video-game-titles-ever/443050/39 "2008-03-31T02:50:34Z")
No, it was an actual Neo Geo game called The Irritating Maze (having played it, I can tell you that it’s a very apt title). Used a trackball. Really obscure; I’ve only ever seen it on emulator. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-30-dumbest-video-game-titles-ever/443050/40 "2008-03-31T03:04:05Z")
[QUOTE=Argent Towers] From a purely logical standpoint “Final Fantasy” is one of the stupidest titles ever. They just keep making new ones - it’s never final. [/QUOTE] A lot of Japanese games, the tiutles of whcih people just seem to take for granted, are like that. How about “Metal Gear Solid”? What the hell does that mean? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-30-dumbest-video-game-titles-ever/443050.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-30-dumbest-video-game-titles-ever/443050.md?page=3)