The 30 Dumbest Video Game Titles Ever

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…

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 :confused:
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 :smiley: )
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??”

From a purely logical standpoint “Final Fantasy” is one of the stupidest titles ever. They just keep making new ones - it’s never final.

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.

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!

But the first WAS intended to be final. The blame lies with the producer not retiring. :slight_smile:

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?

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.

I loved that game!

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.

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? :stuck_out_tongue:

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.

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.

Not to mention Quality Assurance Tycoon.

The most shocking thing about the original link is that CNet still exists

No love for Combat Wombat?

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.

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.)

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.

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?