/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.6391461]

ITT: Retro games with dumb titles.

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[Anonymous No.6391884]

Ninja Baseball Bat Man was an incredible game on the arcade! R.I.P.

[Anonymous No.6392019]

Don't think anything can top this for me, it absolutely hurts to look at

[Anonymous No.6392280]

>>6391514
in the original japanese version it's called (annoyed grunt)donpachi

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>>6392019
This one is impressively dumb.
>have a successful franchise called Thunder Force
>fourth game is called Thunder Force IV in Japan as you'd expect
>American localization randomly changed to Lightning Force
>except they misspell it as "Lightening" Force for no reason
Truly baffling.

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[Anonymous No.6393746]

Still don't know why they gave a Japanese as fuck game a random German title(Ambition). I guess they just thought it sounded cool...

[Anonymous No.6393754]

>>6393746
This game was released in 2007, but it was on the Sega NAOMI, so I think it counts. Its name is "Akatsuki Blitzkampf Ausf. Achse". I don't speak German, but it seems like nonsense to me.

[Anonymous No.6393763]

>>6391461

[Anonymous No.6393769]

>>6393746
>>6393754
It's just how Japan do. Here's a list of attacks a Japanese schoolgirl living in Japan in a Japanese game can do to her enemies.

[Anonymous No.6393895]

>>6392280
Well played.

[Anonymous No.6393906]

what the fuck were they thinking

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>>6393769
Best girl in the whole Lakers series.

[Anonymous No.6394173]

>>6391461
Cyber Lip

[Anonymous No.6394176]

This is one of the dumbest

[Anonymous No.6394214]

>>6394173
Did they mean "Cyber Rip"? is there some way that title makes sense?

[Anonymous No.6394256]

>>6394097
I wish this subtitle was actually part of the name, so I could nominate it for this thread.

[Anonymous No.6394307]

>>6394176
I actually like that.

[Anonymous No.6394348]

>>6393746
Because they knew the game was dumb compared to Tobal, they were warning people

[Anonymous No.6394351]

>>6394307
Why its fucking stupid, wholesale slice is a fucking retarded name

[Anonymous No.6394373]

>>6394214
Possibly but i don't think so.
It's a run and gun game like metal slug.

[Anonymous No.6394375]

>>6393746
Japan loves the sound of German.

[Anonymous No.6394428]

>>6394256
>simulation of girl force since 1993
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[Anonymous No.6394664]

>>6393906
It was a warning. They knew the dire straights Japan would be in back then.

[Anonymous No.6394702]

>>6391461
Aw man I want hotdogs now.

[Anonymous No.6394771]

GAY VAN

[Anonymous No.6394782]

>>6392019
>Thunder Force II was released with it's original title as a Genesis launch game, despite the first game only being on japanese home computers
>Thunder Force III was also released in the USA
>Part 4? now's a good time to change the title

[Anonymous No.6394823]

>>6394214
The "insain" computer in that game is a robotic mouth, it's named Cyber Lip, because it has cyber lips
It makes perfect sense

[Anonymous No.6394849]

>>6392019
>dude lmao let's change the name of the sequel to one our consoles most popular shooters for no reason
I never realized that even the artwork is totally wrong too - the cockpit is supposed to be at the very front of the ship, not towards the back.

[Anonymous No.6394898]

>>6394849
>the cockpit is supposed to be at the very front of the ship, not towards the back
God dammit.

[Anonymous No.6394954]

>>6392019
>>6393094
>>6394782
>>6394849
Just guessing, but I bet that either Sega (who published this in the USA) didn't have the license to use the "Thunder Force" name at the time, or they were trying to expand the game's its market reach by not only making it sound "cooler" but also intentionally "misspelling" the word in order to make it further memorably stand out (I put "misspelling" in quotes, since "lightening" is actually a real word that means "a process of illumination or something made illuminated", so they may have intended it as a double entendre since "the player is trying to save the world"). I'm not defending it, and I also think it sounds extremely bad and regrettable, but perhaps one these might explain this obviously bizarre name.

[Anonymous No.6394983]

>>6394954
>they may have intended it as a double entendre
I think that's being overly generous. They probably looked up "lightening" in a dictionary and didn't comprehend the difference between it and lightning.

[Anonymous No.6395195]

>>6394428
Well, it is.

[Anonymous No.6395742]

>>6393763
Space Gallagher is PISSED

[Anonymous No.6396031]

>>6391461
WILD WOODY

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>>6393769
>StoB
ẞßẞßẞßẞßẞßẞßẞßẞß
>Seeren Metzger
Seelen Metzger (soul butcher)?

[Anonymous No.6397630]

>>6396468
I don't speak German.

[Anonymous No.6398202]

>>6394173
No. At the end of the game you must defeat a cybernetic pair of lips. So the title is 100% logical.

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>>6394351
Bulk doesn't mean wholesale here. It's more portraying a large mass, like a powerful blow. Fucking retarded autist zoomer.

[Anonymous No.6398279]

Lup Salad

[Anonymous No.6398280]

>>6398245
A Classic Game.

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>>6391461
only somewhat related, but the rare unobtainium metal in Gunhed is called "Texmexium"